Critical Thinking: A Strategic Guide to Personal Development

By Norman E. Raison IV

Book Overview

Critical Thinking: A Strategic Guide to Personal Development is a comprehensive self-help textbook conceptually designed to dramatically improve the quality of an individual's thoughts. This theoretical construct travels infinitely beyond the conventional method of using clich terms, regurgitating unimaginative expressions, and spouting platitudes. Instead, we provide an in-depth, profound exploration into an array of aspects regarding the self as it relates to society.

This dynamic and innovative approach to personal development integrates three distinct disciplines to explain the HOW and-more importantly-the WHY behind self-enhancement and self-improvement. Through incorporating the underlying Sociological, Psychological, and Philosophical factors governing society, readers will gain access to the insightful blueprint necessary to protect themselves from the psychological warfare the masses are regularly exposed to and subjected to.

Additionally, this encyclopedic road map to personal empowerment features-thought-provoking-conceptual expansion questions designed to stimulate and inspire outside-the-box reasoning to form logical conclusions. Free your mind from the veiled shackles society has subconsciously placed on it by deciphering and dismantling the invisible tactics used to divide and conquer through self-subjugation.

Boundaries are self-imposed, and we hold the key to our own salvation. Become an independent, FREE-thinker through Critical Thinking: A Strategic Guide to Personal Development
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FEATURING: I. Theories and Factors of Personal DevelopmentA. Understanding Personal Development through Psychology
B. Philosophical & Metaphysical Factors
C. Sociological Factors

II. Sociological Theories of Society
B. Learned Helplessness Theory and Its Social Impact
C. Attribution Theory

UNIT 2: Secrets of Success and Universal Laws

I: The Importance of Thought
A. Defining Success
B. Confidence and Conformity
C. Motivation and the Hierarchy of Needs

II: Application of the Universal Laws
A. 14 Universal Laws

III: Earl Nightingale's Rules for Success & the Attitude Diseases
A. Earl Nightingale's 10 Rules of Success
B. Attitude Diseases

UNIT 3: Persuasion vs Manipulation

I: Understanding Persuasion
II: Understanding Manipulation
III: The Art of Seduction (Robert Greene)

UNIT 4: Power, Authority & Obedience

I: Power versus Authority
C. Obedience to Authority

1. Stanley Milgram Experiment (1961)
2. Stanford Prison Experiment (1973)UNIT 5: Understanding Power through its 48 Laws

I. 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)

UNIT 6: Social Psychology: Control, Categorization & Conflict

I. Control through Social Conformity
A. Psychology of Control (Bernays)
B. Social Conformity and the Asch Experiment

II. Social Psychology

III. Identity Theory, Social Identity Theory and Self-Categorization
A. Identity Theory
B. Social Identity Theory
C. Self-Categorization Theory

IV. In-Group/Out-Group Bias
A. In-Group Bias
B. Realistic Conflict Theory
C. Stereotype Content Model

UNIT 7: Philosophies of Group Psychology (Freud, Le Bon & Bernays)

I. The Power of the Group
A. Group Psychology (Sigmund Freud & Gustave Le Bon)
B. William McDougall & the Five Points of Collective Mental Life

II. Manipulating the Masses
Propaganda (Edward Bernays)

III. Individualism vs. Collectivism
Individualism vs. CollectivismFear & Social Control through the Collective

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1081502762
• ISBN13: 9781081502768
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"