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THINK BETTER: There IS Truth

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Continuing our series about how to think better, I show you how to look for evidence. Lots of people make claims. Few think to give you good evidence. Often because they don’t have it; they only have emotion or hearsay or opinion. Some, however, intentionally give you a partial story, with lots of emotion, in order to trick and weaponize you.

Don’t be fooled.

And be persuasive.

Oh, wait, great writing, but on wrong topic. This week: THERE IS TRUTH. School has worked so hard for so long to teach us that there is no such thing as truth. But we know better. When you take your motorcycle in, you know whether or not it runs when you get it out. Either it runs or it doesn’t. So you know there is fact.

Similarly, you can test Truth. And besides, just because things here are in a mixed state, that doesn’t mean that there couldn’t be, in the abstract, Truth. You can conceive of it, and that, in the abstract is proof enough.

And wow it makes a difference. If someone can convince you that there is not truth, then they can convince you that anything they say is the truth. Then you are enslaved. There is Truth; you can know it; therefore, you can be free.

I invited you to listen.

Think Better by Looking for and Evaluating Evidence

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Think better by looking for and evaluating evidence.

A lot of people don’t even give you evidence, but just emotional slogans. Watch out for this! You are being deceived, tricked, and led around by the nose. Slow it down, and remember to look for evidence.

Other people refuse to consider what I have to say, because it contravenes “what they know” but they fail to hear out the evidence. Remember to slow down and hear the evidence.

In other cases, people do give you evidence, but it is faulty or fragmentary. Remember to evaluate the evidence. Is it strong?

Hear more about how you — and your children– can think better by demanding and evaluating evidence.

Also, check out my “How to Tell What is True” series in “The Store.” at www.overcominglearningproblems.org

Think Better: Do Not Be Triggered

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Think Better: Do Not Be Triggered. Children are now trained to be triggered. You see your friends triggered. No one can pay attention to what is being argued. They have been trained to be unable to think. They just turn into emotional torpedoes. Doesn’t matter what the issue is.

You, you don’t be like that. You, pay attention to what is being argued. Then you can go forward to think about it. If you are triggered, you are not thinking.

This is in our current series on how to think better. Notice, please, that in the store we have a series about how to tell what is true. Check out the store, by going to the tabs.

Also, you can get a pdf on 20 questions to ask to tell if something is true by signing up in the right hand widget.

Why STEAM education is Dangerous

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STEM is science, technology, engineering and math. It was heralded as a step forward, after low American scores. More recently art was added. So STEAM is all the rage. Wait. What? While we are celebrating, now for years, something we did very badly, and still do even worse…. what is missing. What is being hidden? Watch out.

This is dangerous. See why. Come to your own conclusions. Join me through a few stories for a fun ride. With an ending realization that History and Civics, done well of course, should be the center of education. That is what is being left out.

Why has History been so very neglected? What has been the result? If there is an intention behind it, what would that be?

How can you correct it?
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