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Thinker's Guide to Analytic Thinking: How to Take Thinking Apart and What to Look for When You Do

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I had my doubts that this book would be useful to me, the average (but highly curious) person. Still, I bought it regardless, because I like to try my hand at engaging new concepts and challenging myself. What I found when I opened this book and began reading was something above and beyond my expectations. It was easy to understand, useful, and most importantly, both illuminating and practical, even for someone like myself with no academic background.

It cleanly describes the logical processes inherent in every thought we have, alongside diagrams depicting the cycles that a thought goes through from start to conclusion. It even providing examples and simple challenges meant to help you deepen your understanding of and ability to use the concepts therein. The intent of the book is to make the reader cognizant of these processes and patterns that all of us go through when thinking and choosing to act, with the hope that it will provide us with the ability to refine the processes, make them clearer and more coherent, and to take control of our thoughts to our own benefit. This book, and all of the others like it that I own, are simply fantastic, and even if you've no intention to use them in an academic setting, they're still intensely useful for every day life and personal self-development.