Stretch Your Mind

Are you terrified of making bad decisions and missing great opportunities? Do you question your judgment and doubt your intuition? Your brain is like any other muscle; it needs training to improve. Nobody is born with flawless critical thinking skills. These skills require systematic practice, but you can shortcut the learning curve by mastering some cognitive tools that the best thinkers, psychologists, and high achievers also use. Stretch Your Mind will show you how to think smarter and find better answers to questions, enhancing your self-trust. This book takes a closer look at our everyday habits and points out how we can question our actions effectively in order to become more efficient and productive. Zoe McKey has studied human cognition for over a decade. This book collects her personal experiences and some of the best studies in cognitive improvement and social psychology to guide you in scaling up your critical thinking, decision-making, judging, and time management skills. Leave analysis paralysis for yesterday. •Overcome your mental blocks and improve your life. •Discover your "personal excellence." •Think like a professional and not an amateur. •Bring your most creative side to the surface. •Improve your intuition. Discover and utilize the uncharted parts of your brain. •Learn to use the method of the Six Thinking Hats™ to make the best multilateral decisions. •Master your time management with Philip Zimbardo's Time Paradox theory. •Learn to set goals like a champion with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Learn to have a self-directed, self-monitored, self-disciplined, and self-corrective way of thinking. Know how to analyze situations from different angles so you won't jump to hasty, premature conclusions but well-founded, objective ones. Make better predictions and eliminate regrets that follow a bad decision and become more intentional about your life in general.