The tree is the almost the only naturally occurring material that can interact with the 4 elements - Fire, Water, Air and Earth. What are the thinking lessons we can tease out from the behaviour and characteristics of Water? Flexibility of shape and state? Useless water? And so on... Want to better your thinking every time you drink water? Want to better your thinking anytime your hear the rain? Or see the snow? Well, join us in today's thinking development Odyssey as you listen to understand, recall and apply.

Fire is an amazing servant but a terrible master! But there's so much to learn when we observe how fire behaves that can aid us in effective thinking. Characteristics of Fire important to the thinker include "upwardness", "immediacy"...and 2 other lessons! This podcast challenges you to learn from fire in managing your thinking and by extension your life at home, school, work and play. Which is stronger, fire or water? What's interesting about the relationship between fire and air. Why the tree? Why the parable of the tree?

One of my favorite YouTubers asked his audience - me inclusive - days ago, to share possible solution to the US's ridiculous gun violence, control, safety problem. You asked, I answered. An overview? Well, since you asked so nicely... The structure of my offer centres around finding the whitespaces in between the competing interests of gun owners, gun manufacturers, regulators and non-gun owners. And borrowing from the familiar success of a 200+ years old industry to address the real problem! As my podcast says, The Problem Is Not The Problem! The problem is how you're thinking about the problem. Listen and upthink!

So, I recently hired someone to handle digital marketing for us at Thinkers Edge - check us out on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. It's hard to sell what you don't really understand, so I led her through a small part of the larger training - Upthink 2.0. Guys the experience was riveting, even for me! The outcome of our simple joint thinking exercise blew, even I, out of the water! I have talked about the US Gun Violence issue before, yet I was still floored at the insights that emerged from the session! What happened? Well, listen in! Cheers!

There is a way to have difficult discussions and debates. And it is by collective thinking. In this episode, I'm not sharing my personal opinion on Mass Shootings in America. Instead we use the topic as a use case for how thinking tools can be used in difficult conversations and situations. We explore the 5 Whys Thinking Tools and how to use them, when to stop, where to stop. We also explore the way the PRISM algorithm can be used to develop an Effective Problem statement. No matter where you lie on the socio-cultural spectrum, with better thinking we can get more efficient and effective. We can retain our values and improve the chances and possibility of actually solving the problem - as opposed to just talking about it. Get ready to learn better thinking, because a better world awaits!

We are embarking on a new project - hopefully with Y Combinator and or Sequoia Capital on helping people manage imminent loss and bereavement by bottling up a little of their love and cast it to the Oceans! (Well, technically that's our server's nickname.) We hope to, by extension gradually transform society's relationship with dying and death, so we can live more fulfilling lives... Listen in for more! Cheers!

As a medical literacy professional I'm often invited to talk to people about the ongoing once in a century global pandemic. Here's a bit of a PSA (public service announcement) to help everyday people understand how vaccines work in general and how the Covid 19 vaccines in particular, work. We'll also touch on issues like leadership, education and the role of thinking as a key element of societal improvement & community development. Better Thinking, Better World!

They say there are 4 answers to prayer: Yes, No, Wait & Silence. We all have more unanswered prayers than we have answered prayers. Let's call everything else apart from "Yes" unanswered prayer. How can thinking come into play? How can effective thinking help us leverage our unanswered? That's what we'll discuss on this podcast. Come in, let's dive in, unstuck from the "Shallows"

Many problems that seem intractable, have solutions that elude us due to a weak or incomplete way of thinking about the problem. In this episode, we explore the police murder situation in the US by using the thinking tool - CAF (learn more in the podcast). Sometimes simple solutions only seem obvious in retrospect. However, simple does not necessarily mean easy. Furthermore there are key considerations in solutions selection, that we all miss from time to time. Many times what people do, that we consider as "evil" are merely the results of desperation, fear and anger - all mental states that interfere with efficient thinking. People sometimes feel they HAVE TO BE EVIL because they CANNOT SEE, think or conceptualize ANY OTHER WAY to achieve an ideal, purpose or vision which is incredibly important to them (whether the rest of us agree or not). So, let's solve America's killing-of-unarmed-suspects-problem in less than 1 hour. Ready? Let's go!

This is an excerpt from lesson 2 in Module 1 of the Peak Performance Thinking Development Course. Understand Problem Identification and Problem Classification. What's a Good Problem? What's a Bad Problem? What's a Wicked Problem? Find out more...