by Warren Berger | Leadership
In Big Think’s new “Hindsight” series, I talk about how we can find promising seeds of potential growth and improvement embedded in our past successes as well as in our failures. But we must be willing to take the time and effort to look back and ask questions....
by Warren Berger | Critical Thinking
Critical thinking may be the issue of our times—because as a society, we really can’t tackle, or even agree on, the various other challenges we face unless we can think about them clearly, objectively, rationally. If you want to better understand what critical...
by Warren Berger | Critical Thinking
Excerpted from A More Beautiful Question, 10th Anniversary Edition Along with objectivity and fair-mindedness, an important element of critical thinking is awareness—of context, of multiple viewpoints, and of your own thought processes and assumptions. The late...
by Warren Berger | Kids and Education
The humble question is an indispensable tool: the spade that helps us dig for truth, or the flashlight that illuminates surrounding darkness. Questioning helps us learn, explore the unknown, and adapt to change. That makes it a most precious “app” today, in a world...
by Warren Berger | Critical Thinking
This is an excerpt from the “Questioning and Critical Thinking” chapter of the 2024 edition of A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION. A big part of critical thinking is about analyzing and making sense of what’s coming at us—the new information, claims, and viewpoints we...
