5 elements of effective thinking
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🚀 5 Ways to Supercharge Your Thinking
(Inspired by 📖 “The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking”)
1️⃣ Ground your thinking - Strive for rocked solid understanding of the BASICS
🧪 Take 5 minutes to write down the specific components of a skill/subject fundamental to your learning.
→ What are the fundamentals of a topic?
→ Where do you have knowledge gaps?
→ Can you describe the overall picture? (What is missing?)
2️⃣ Ignite insights through mistakes - FAIL to succeed
🧪 Quickly jot down ANY ideas - good, bad, inaccurate, vague
→ Welcome accidental missteps
→ Consider to fail nine times out of ten
→ Exploit what’s wrong and correct the errors you see
→ Bad day? Make the conscious effort to find and extract positive lessons
3️⃣ Create and ask challenging QUESTIONs - Be your own Socrates
→ Teach to learn
→ Improve your questions
What is the goal❓
What ties the ideas❓
What are the basic examples❓
How can I increase my curiosity❓
How to think better and understand deeply❓
4️⃣ Follow the FLOW of ideas - look back, look forward
🧪 Quickly just do it and iterate on ideas
→ What came before?
→ What were they thinking?
→ What is next - engage with an idea and add more to it
5️⃣ Engaging CHANGE - Learning is a lifelong journey
🧪 Imagine - What would a more skilled practitioner do.
What additional knowledge, understanding and experience would they bring to the task?
→ Be prepared to change and evolve constantly
(Insights from the book: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Burger & Starbird)
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📖 The 5 elements of effective thinking (Basics, Fail, Socratic Questioning, Flow, Change)
1️⃣ Ground your thinking - Strive for rocked solid understanding 🧪 Take 5 minutes to write down the specific components of a skill/subject fundamental to your learning.
→ What are the fundamentals of a topic? → Where do you have knowledge gaps? → Can you describe the overall picture? (What is missing?)
2️⃣ Ignite insights through mistakes - Fail to succeed 🧪 Quickly jot down ANY ideas - good, bad, inaccurate, vague
→ Welcome accidental missteps → Consider to fail nine times out of ten → Exploit what’s wrong and correct the errors you see → Bad day? Make the conscious effort to find and extract positive lessons
3️⃣ Create and ask challenging questions - Be your own Socrates → Teach to learn → Improve your questions What is the goal❓ What ties the ideas❓ What are the basic examples❓ How can I increase my curiosity❓ How to think better and understand deeply❓
4️⃣ Follow the flow of ideas - look back, look forward 🧪 Quickly just do it and iterate on ideas → What came before? → What were they thinking? → What is next - engage with an idea and add more to it
5️⃣ Engaging change - Learning is a lifelong journey 🧪 Imagine - What would a more skilled practitioner do. What additional knowledge, understanding and experience would they bring to the task?
→ Be prepared to change and evolve constantly
Insights from the book: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Burger & Starbird
Posted on LINKEDIN on 2024-05-27_Mon
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