The Thinking Workshop: Creativity, Bias, and the Architecture of Reason
You've been taught what to think.
This book shows you how thinking actually works.
Inside your mind, three forces are always at work:
The Inventor generates ideas.
The Shortcutter makes snap judgments.
The Inspector questions what survives.
Most of the time, they don't politely take turns.
They interrupt. They compete. They occasionally make an absolute mess of things.
And that's where thinking goes wrong.
In The Thinking Workshop, Mark Donnelly, PhD, combines psychology, behavioral economics, creativity research, cognitive bias, and logical reasoning into one practical framework for understanding how the mind really works.
Through stories, tools, exercises, and memorable characters, readers will learn how to:
- Generate stronger, more original ideas
- Recognize cognitive bias while it's happening
- Spot logical fallacies in arguments
- Build better decisions under pressure
- Change their minds without losing confidence
- Create environments where better thinking becomes the norm
This is not a book about becoming perfectly rational.
It's about becoming more deliberate.
Because thinking isn't a talent.
It's a workshop.
And once you understand how the workshop operates, you can finally start running it on purpose.
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