Module 4 · Mind

Thinking skills

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Seeing situations more clearly, solving problems and deciding well under pressure.

By the end of this world

You will be able to separate what happened from the story about it, and work through problems and decisions with a clearer head.

Seeing clearly

• Spotting your assumptions — Most conclusions rest on something we never checked. Finding it changes the conclusion. (6 min · Beginner)
• Evidence vs interpretation — What you saw, and what you decided it meant, are two different things. (6 min · Beginner)
• Common thinking traps — All-or-nothing, mind-reading, fortune-telling: patterns every mind falls into under stress. (7 min · Practising)
• Reframing — Looking at the same facts from another angle — not to pretend, but to see more of what is there. (6 min · Practising)
• Thinking in probabilities — Replacing “this will go wrong” with “how likely is it, really?” (7 min · Intermediate)
• Perspective taking — Seeing a situation from where someone else stands — including your future self. (6 min · Practising)

Solving and deciding

• Structured problem solving — Six plain steps from “this is a mess” to “here is what I’ll try first”. (7 min · Beginner)
• Deciding when you are stressed — Stress narrows thinking. How to make decisions that you will still agree with tomorrow. (7 min · Practising)
• Thinking critically about health claims — How to judge a headline, a post or a product that promises to change your health. (8 min · Intermediate)
• Thinking about your thinking — Noticing how you are thinking, not only what — and changing course when it isn’t working. (6 min · Intermediate)
• Learning from mistakes — Turning “I messed up” into “here is what I know now” — reflection that helps instead of hurts. (6 min · Beginner)

Self-doubt and confidence

• Where self-doubt comes from — The inner voice that says you can’t — where it learned that, and how to tell it apart from an honest assessment. (7 min · Beginner)
• Feeling like an impostor — Feeling like a fraud who will be found out is common among capable people. What it is, and what helps. (7 min · Practising)
• Confidence built from evidence — Confidence rarely arrives first. It grows from small actions you can point back to. (6 min · Practising)