Posts Tagged ‘critical thinking’
ACLR: What’s Good Thinking?
Welcome to the season 2 finale of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio. We’re chopping on the Curiosity Bite about good thinking. Are you a good thinker? How do you know? What is good thinking? Follow Becki on LinkedIn to continue the good thinking conversation on Good Thinking on LinkedIn LIVE (Mondays 9am PT/4pm GMT)…streamed LIVE on Becki’s YouTube channel, too!
Read MoreACLR: How Often Is There Really No Other Explanation?
Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio. I love this week’s Curiosity Bite on ACLR: How often is there really no other explanation? Think about this as a strategy in your work. Think about this in making sense of your daily life. We tease apart some wild conspiracies to see if we can uncover other explanations.
Read MoreMini-Guide to Applied Curiosity for Critical Thinking
Our critical thinking skills are in a State of Emergency. Not because we’re dumb. We’re not. We simply have too much information for our human brains to process. We are increasingly relying on other humans, our own biases, and AI algorithms to nudge our thinking.
Possession of knowledge does not guarantee the ability to think wisely. We can change this using Applied Curiosity. Let this be your guide.
Read MoreThe Truth About Your Truth and My Truth
Welcome to the first in the Applied Curiosity Lab video series: Strong Opinions, Loosely Held. This little rabble rouser is called, The Truth About ‘My Truth’ and ‘Your Truth’.
Read MoreACLR 014: How to Cultivate Curiosity, with Jennifer Felberg
Sipping cocktails with Jennifer Felberg and sharing actionable lessons in how to cultivate curiosity and how to use applied curiosity as a strategic tool for yourself, your family, and your company.
Read MoreHow to Raise Curious Kids
Do we really want curious kids? They can get on our nerves—always asking questions, testing boundaries, challenging our own assumptions and beliefs, scaring the hell out of us. Do we really want to do what it takes to raise curious kids? It can be exhausting.
If you would answer, “yes” to these questions, especially if it was less annoying and exhausting, stick with me here.
Read More5 Lubricants for The Age of Curiosity
It is dangerous not to see now as the urgent time to usher in the Age of Curiosity. Just ask the hilariously brilliant Amy Schumer. WTH does Amy have anything to do with curiosity? Great! You’re curious.
If you skip all these words of foreplay and jump right down to the bullet points (like we all do–so busy we are!), you’ll make the case for curiosity in that one action alone. If not, here’s your case for curiosity now:
Read More5 Phrases That Are Killing Curiosity
I knew something horrible had happened. The sound scared me before I felt anything more than a weird sensation. Immediately the intense sympathy I could never quite muster for people complaining of backaches came rushing in with the pain.
The culprit was one of those huge tractor tires in a torturous bootcamp exercise class. As per instructions, I was flipping it over and over. If I had been paid to do it, I would have refused on the principle that it was workplace endangerment. In this case, I was actually paying real money to do this.
Read MoreCuriosity at the World Domination Summit
This past weekend was the World Domination Summit. Chris Guillebeau and his dedicated team brought approximately 2500 people from over 30 countries together in Portland for the fourth year of his wonderful, inspiring quest of an event. Admittedly when I first heard about the summit I, like many people, suspected that it was inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe it was, but there was neither whip nor front-zipping mask in sight. There were, however, speakers from all over the world, a world-record yoga event in Pioneer Courthouse Square, and participant-generated meet-ups covering topics from meditation, internet marketing, film and ecstatic dance. The summit sold out
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