Power Thinking

Ace Your Competitive Exams • Gain insights into the four classic mindsets • Use quantitative tools to frame problems • Employ creative thinking to unlock novel solutions • Use logic to break apart arguments Hone Your Reasoning Skills and Achieve Greater Academic and Professional Success Power Thinking addresses one of the most critical yet seldom taught skills. Reasoning skills help us make sense of the world, including how to help us bettter make decisions, tackle opportunities, evaluate claims, and solve problems. Interwoven within this book’s five sections – Perception & Mindset, Decision Making, Creative Thinking, Analyzing Arguments, and Mastering Logic – you’ll discover 50 tips that summarize the common themes behind classic reasoning problems and situations. Appendixes contain summaries of fallacious reasoning, analogies, trade-offs, and a review of critical reading. A wealth of examples, charts, and insightful problems makes Power Thinking an invaluable guide for any individual wanting to further sharpen his or her thinking skills. BRANDON ROYAL (CPA, MBA) is an award-winning author, who through his work as a teacher and educational consultant, has developed a set of key learning principles that help define the basics of reasoning, math, writing, and grammar.