Learn to ask smart questions, draw conclusions and analyze situations. Independent thinking is critical thinking. And critical thinking is the key to a meaningful life: the path to sound decisions, effective reasoning, and clear awareness. How to Think Independently is a guide for those who want to firmly steer the ship of their own lives. Who knows what traps await those who wander through the world blindly. Wrong facts? False numbers? Dubious truths or, worse, belief in them? We all meet them every day. But this book, like a primer from A to Z, will teach you how to think correctly. After all, only the art of thinking helps to separate the exceptional from the mediocre. Patrick King is an international bestselling author and a coach on social interaction skills. His writings are based on a wide variety of sources, research, academic experience, coaching and real-life knowledge. Protect yourself from bad information, inaccurate statistics and falsehoods. Ideas and topics that the author develops in this book:[ul]levels of independent thinking; how to learn critical thinking; Nietzsche's lessons about finding yourself; why our feelings, emotions and even memories are not reality at all; the Paul-Elder model of critical thinking and analysis ;and most importantly: freedom from cognitive distortions, thinking filters and false pasts.[/ul]