Critical Thinking.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Speculation is step one. Calibration against reality is step two. Multiplication is scaling, not guaranteed growth, but intuition is indeed the first step toward new ideas.
2.
Quote:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- 1755.
Meaning:
Five Thought Tools < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
3.
From History: 1755 BCE
The Code of Hammurabi shows one of humanity’s early attempts to turn power into public law: written rules, visible standards, and punishments tied to social order.
4.
Pythagoras did not know the later word philosopher. It was popularized later by Plato, Aristotle, and others. This is a great reminder, use the calendar as a cross-checking tool.
5.
Quote:
- Michael Alan Prestwood.
- 2024.
Meaning:
Life becomes calmer when you stop demanding perfect certainty. Your impressions are imperfect, but they are enough to help you learn and grow.
6.
From History: 1000 CE
For thousands of years, writing had very little grammar. Grammar helps, and you should respect grammar, but serve the reader first.
8.
Quote:
- E. H. Carr.
- 1961.
From History:
Meaning:
Carr’s 1961 quote reminds us that facts do not become history by themselves. History emerges when evidence is selected, organized, interpreted, and placed into a meaningful story.
9.
From History: Maya, Illusion.
Your cognitive biases, your predictable distortions in judgment, require conscious correction through disciplined thinking. First step, admit you have them.
10.
A universal is a repeatable pattern among concrete objects, abstract entities, or both.
Done. Refresh for another set.
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