What Can You Do With A Brick?

How many uses can you think of for a brick? Or a paper clip?  Or a broom handle? These questions are part of a classic measure of creativity called the Alternate Uses test.    Your creativity is measured by the fluency (total number of ideas), originality, and flexibility of your answers.  

Please God...

Please God, would you make business schools include psychology in their curricula!

Critical Thinking: Just what the heck is it and how do you get better at it?

Fisher & Scriven define critical thinking as "Skilled, active, interpretation and evaluation of observations, communications, information, and argumentation." -- huh? In simpler terms, critical thinking generally requires the ability to recognize problems and to find workable means for meeting those problems.  To be a good critical thinker you need to:

• marshal pertinent information 
• recognize assumptions and logical fallacies
• appraise evidence and evaluate arguments
• draw warranted conclusions and generalizations
• test conclusions and generalizations 

and ultimately to render accurate judgments about specific things and qualities in everyday life. Bottom-line: critical thinking is about being both willing AND able to evaluate your own thinking and the thinking of others.