"Critical Thinking Tools (Original Book 3rd Edition)" Author: [US] Richard Paul / Linda Elder / Publisher: Machinery Industry Press

Written by two leading experts in the field, this book is designed to provide guidance for readers' success and career development, and can also be used as a reference book for critical thinking courses in schools. Based on the theory developed over the past 30 years, this book emphasizes a comprehensive, comprehensive, substantive and practical concept of critical thinking, aiming to cultivate students' ability to develop the basic intellectual skills needed to think through any course, subject and any problem they face. In short, this book provides readers with the intellectual tools needed for lifelong learning, rationality, and self-discipline.

Critical thinking is not an abstract noun far away from life. By mastering it, you can control your own way of thinking, become a better and wiser thinker and problem solver, take control of your career and life, and even your own emotions, gradually stop being influenced by others, and thus improve the quality of your life.

A powerful rational thinking tool to help you clarify yourself and see through the world!

3 basic functions of the brain

The 8 Elements That Make Up Thinking

9 Criteria for Evaluating Thinking

3 Types of Questions to Ask

18 Strategies to Optimize Your Learning

4 key points to make a sound decision

Two types of egocentric thinking

Three forms of objective presentation

3 Types of Thinkers

44 tricks to win a debate

11 core concepts of strategic thinking

Richard Paul

An internationally recognized authority on critical thinking, and the chairman of the National Council on Critical Thinking in the United States, he established the Center for Critical Thinking, the National Critical Thinking Forum, and the National Critical Thinking Society, and has organized and hosted 20 international critical thinking conferences. He constructed a three-factor critical thinking teaching model, namely, reasoning elements, intellectual standards, and intellectual traits, each of which has its own connotation and extension.

Hou Yubo

Executive Director and Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Society of Social Psychology; Deputy Director of the Personality Psychology Committee of the Chinese Psychological Society, and Member of the Social Psychology Committee; Director of the Beijing Psychological Society, and Vice Chairman of the Beijing Social Psychology Society. Secretary-General of the Personality and Social Psychology Research Center of Peking University and the Youth Development Research Center of the Peking University-Hong Kong Youth Association.