“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
(Mark Twain)
The course focuses on how to improve the ability to think critically, to make sense of a wealth of information, to avoid cognitive distortions and to detect manipulation.
- Improve the ability to think critically (both in a corporate environment and beyond).
- Become aware of cognitive biases and how to avoid them.
- Learn to assess the likelihood of information being true.
- Develop the ability to navigate vast amounts of information and detect manipulation.
ME and My Brain – So Amazing, Yet So Vulnerable
- Rationality and irrationality
- Cognitive biases – how our brain deceives us
- Unfounded claims and why we believe them
- Thought patterns
CONTEXT and Working with Information
- How and where to verify the accuracy of information
- How to recognize reliable sources
- How not to be deceived – Fake News/Fake Videos
- Working with text – Fact-checking
- The SHEEP technique
YOU and Methods of Manipulating Information and People
- Why people spread nonsense
- How to detect information manipulation
- The difference between persuasion and manipulation
- Correlation vs. causation
- Logical fallacies
Critical Thinking in Practice
- A practical cheat sheet for improving critical thinking
- 30 questions of a critical thinker
- Critical thinking in various situations (during meetings, when listening to a presentation, making decisions in a corporate environment, etc.)
