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Making Up Your Own Mind
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Making Up Your Own Mind

Thinking Effectively Through Creative Puzzle-Solving

Princeton UP, 2019 更多详情


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • For Experts
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Edward Burger, president of Southwestern University, developed a 100-page course that aims to slow down your thinking and help you think through ideas. He lays out 25 challenging puzzles and guides you through solving them without revealing the answers. You may find Burger’s puzzles and hints either challenging or vexing, but he will inspire you to get up, walk around, ponder and puzzle. Those with the patience to practice and reflect will appreciate Burger’s unique work. 

Take-Aways

  • Don’t let gaining a credential and landing a job distract you from the true purpose of a formal education.
  • The useful lifespan of skills decreases constantly. Continually strive to develop your ability to think effectively.
  • Practice by applying the “five elements of effective thinking”:

About the Author

Southwestern University president Edward B. Burger designed a course around these thinking practices through entertaining puzzles, which he teaches as a mathematics professor at Southwestern.


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