Back to: TIP Block 1: Foundations
Strategic Thinking is the toolbox of different thinking styles that equips you to survive in this (mis)Information Age.
In choosing the path of the Jedi you have knowingly or unknowingly decided to take your own path. And if you haven’t found out already, you’ll soon see that when you’re not spoon fed answers to things, you’ll become overwhelmed by options (which likely contradict each other), or get trapped in your own biases.
These different thinking processes will be imperative to you in finding your own answers and be able to ferret out the misinformation. This knowledge will be useful to you in many areas of your life, from shopping for laundry detergent, to understanding how you react to other people in your life.
Read the attached PDF(s) in the format of your choice. One is the full 35 pages, the other is chopped up by section. This document is from the US Air Force Noncommissioned Officer Academy Distance Learning Course, and will cover the following thinking styles:
- Critical Thinking
- Creative Thinking
- Innovative Thinking
- Adaptive Thinking
- Reflective Thinking
- Analytical Thinking
- Future Thinking
- Synthesis
Progress Checks are optional, but do accomplish the exercises. Feel free to print out those pages, write them on a separate sheet, or just do them in your head. I don’t need to see the exercises.
But in the end, I’d like to hear your thoughts about the subject. For example: what you learned, what was new, what you had ideas about, things you realized. Examples where you have used one or more of these thinking styles to your benefit, or where you could have used them better.
Note: This is from a military school so there is a touch of military dialect, if you need translation of something, let me (Kit) know! This is until I get the time to find a different quality source or write up one myself.
NCO: Non-Commissioned Officer (Sergeant) Just replace this with “Jedi” 🙂
Please add your answers to your TIP Journal located in the forums, and don’t forget to cite any material you used in your lesson!