Thinking Matters: A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions [Paperback]

Making decisions intelligently, rationally and with a sense of personal investment requires a considerable degree of critical thinking. To choose badly based on disinformation or high emotionality, rather than on the intelligent interpretation of data, leads us down a path from which there is often no safe return. Thomas Jefferson wrote that a well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to democracy. That is why one of the most important attributes for citizenship in that democracy is our ability to use intelligent habits of mind to interpret data, to distill disinformation from sound information, to use the best information to make sound and rational decisions to solve the many complex and varied problems that arise.Thinking Matters: A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisionsoffers readers an opportunity to examine what it means to use intelligent habits of mind to make wise, rational and informed choices, and deal more logically with problems that impact their lives.Selma Wassermannis Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Author of more than 30 books, she is the recipient of the University Excellence in Teaching Award.

Wise and thoughtful decision making is vital if our democracy is to survive and thrive. In today's world where news outlets and social media disseminate a mixture of information/misinformation 24/7, only well-developed critical thinking skills can separate the two and lead citizens to make decisions based on sound thinking. ThinkingMatters delivers the means to make this happen.  William C. Cliett Jr., Ph.D, former superintendent of schools, Gainesville, Florida

Thinking Matters: A Guide to Making Wiser and More Thoughtful Decisions is a vital self-help book. It should be on everyones bookshelf. It is a guide to developing thinking skills. Once those skills are well developed you will easily be able to evaluate other self-help books and, with some work, navigate the river of il†