Thinking Tactics: A journey in the human mind

By Mogtaba Mohammed Osman Elhadi and Mogtaba Mohammed Osman

If a poet were asked, "How did you write that beautiful poem?" he wouldn't be able to describe exactly what was going in his mind. A grandmaster chess player might say to explain a genius move, "It just feels like the only right move". And a mathematician might comment, "It seems like connecting dots" when solving a puzzled equation. The truth is, we still don't understand the nature of thinking or where our finest ideas come from.

While science can outline the outcomes of excellent thinking, we still lack a complete understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Even advanced imaging techniques such as MRIs and CT scans provide limited insight into the workings of the brain. Nonetheless, we can tentatively define thinking as the intellectual activity of constructing a model of the world, which allows us to forecast the future, make plans, and achieve our objectives. From this modest description, we can extract a set of twenty-one thinking tactics that trace the common patterns of thought used by great thinkers throughout history.

The beauty of these tactics lies in their modular nature - like Lego bricks, they can be combined in a multitude of ways to form complex new patterns of thinking. By experimenting with these tactics and exploring different combinations, we can unlock endless possibilities for problem-solving, creativity, and intellectual endeavour.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BZFFVVLH
• ISBN13: 9798388370631
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"