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How to think more effectively (2020) by @TheSchoolOfLife or maybe @SchooloflifeThe. Anyway, it's interesting authorship.
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The authors conceptualise thinking as a skill which you can improve.

Let's see how they recommend improving it.
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"Devote more time to evaluating your ideas, values, and goals." They want us to be strategic. This reminds me of planning out your exam answer in a short answer question.
"Dare to subject your aims to probing words like “why,” “to what end,” and “of what importance.” ... (a) shift from impulsive action to a more discriminating, evaluative disposition will make your thinking richer, subtler, and more effective."
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"Ideas develop in fits and starts" The author recommends using a notebook to put your ideas in, which then allows you to revisit those ideas and develop them over time. I've been using twittter and my blog for similar purposes.
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"All too often, your most insightful thoughts are the most elusive – like rare and hard-to-capture butterflies... Distracting your mind can help you catch elusive ideas."

Apparently that's why we have good ideas in the shower or exercising.
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When you feel envy, rather than denying the feeling, examine those thoughts and discover what the root cause of the envy is and what traits you desire in the person you envy.
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Think about death to remind yourself of the temporary nature of life. It can make things weighty, and trivial and unimportant too.
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Be skeptical and question everything - even your own core beliefs. "Experiencing doubt is one of the core aspects of thinking well."
Skepticism was a school of thought in ancient Greece. "our minds are subject to innumerable distortions, biases, and errors. To doubt ourselves is often the wisest course of action."
"In day-to-day affairs, you can generally identify effective thinkers by the caution, nuance, and humility with which they articulate their positions..."
"... They’re aware of the mind’s tricks and distortions, consider issues from multiple perspectives, weigh up conflicting information, and take the time to disengage from emotional and irrational ways of thinking."
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Today's free Blink. Living Beyond "What If?" (2021) by @DrShirleyDavis.
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This is her biography from her website. Looks likes she's the CEO of a consulting firm, and used to be head of HR with expertise in diversity and inclusion.
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When @DrShirleyDavis speaks, "90 percent of the audience agrees that they would live their lives differently if they could do it again. They’d live purposefully – with more passion and less procrastination."

Less procrastination is so me! I feel seen!
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Google Leaks (2021) by @Perpetualmaniac. He was a software engineer at Google and became a whistle blower during the Trump presidency.
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Google dominates a lot of our lives - search engines, youtube, gmail.
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Part of retorts - who says representative democracy is a great way to govern?
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Listening to the @UniMelbMDHS Graduate Research Symposium for Department of Medical Education and Department of General Practice students. Cassie McDonald talking about presenting research to an audience. Image
Wow. She went on radio. Certainly pushing the envelope. Image
Co design. I like it. Warning, it might not work so well for a PhD though. Image
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5 Dec
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The Contrarian is a book written by @chafkin about Peter Thiel. I had heard of Thiel before - I think in the context of Hulk Hogan.
Yes, definitely Hulk Hogan v Gawker is where I'd heard something.
theatlantic.com/business/archi…
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Thiel is described as an outsider who embraced who he was while others who were similarly nerdy would be ashamed.

Thiel also loved fastasy like Dungeons and Dragons and the Hobbit.
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5 Dec
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Today's free blink was about Mary Wollstonecraft. It was written by Lyndall Gordon in 2006.
Interestingly enough, the suburb of Wollstonecraft is named for one of Mary's nephews who fled to Australia to escape the association with Mary (according to wikipedia)!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollstone…
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Mary experienced a number of adverse childhood events in today's parlance. She also helped her younger sister escape an abusive husband.
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I've finished my CPD triennium, and I'm thinking of how to best incorporate feedback and reflective processes into my practice going forward rather than the last minute scramble that it was this year. I'm thinking of two automated systems.
The first is routine MSF. I could set up an online anonymous database (like survey or qualtrics), print out business cards with the site/QR codes, and hand them out each time I work. A simple: What's one thing I did well? What's one thing I could do better?journals.lww.com/jcehp/Abstract…
The 2nd is patient feedback. Can do it the same way (surveymonkey/qualtrics), but what do I measure? The DISQ might be the answer. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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