Think Clearly Under Pressure
Fallacies, biases, and problem-solving technique, without the overlap.
Free to watch. Starting adds a personal copy to My Learning with progress tracking and a curated-path certificate on completion.
About this path
Our catalogue holds the same Wireless Philosophy critical-thinking series under three different course names. This path takes it once, for fallacies and cognitive biases, and spends the rest of its time on things that series does not cover: structured problem-solving technique, the psychology of why you fall for it anyway, and media literacy for the feeds where most bad arguments now live.
What you'll learn
- Name the common fallacies and spot them mid-conversation
- Recognise the biases operating on your own judgement
- Apply structured techniques to an unfamiliar problem
- Reframe a problem before attempting to solve it
- Assess a claim in a feed without needing an expert
The path, module by module
Each step is lifted from a full course in our catalog, and where a course repeats itself we keep only the lessons that earn their place.
Module 1 · from Fallacies, Biases & Rational Thinking
Formal and Informal Fallacies - Part 1
The named fallacies, one short lesson each. Picked from this course rather than the two others in our catalogue that carry the same series under different titles.
8 lessons · 47m
CRITICAL THINKING - Fallacies: Formal and Informal Fallacies · CRITICAL THINKING - Fallacies: Equivocation [HD] · CRITICAL THINKING - Fallacies: Fallacy of Composition
Module 2 · from Fallacies, Biases & Rational Thinking
Cognitive Biases
Cognitive biases: anchoring, loss aversion, and the rest of the reasons knowing about fallacies is not enough.
7 lessons · 30m
CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Alief [HD] · CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Anchoring [HD] · CRITICAL THINKING - Cognitive Biases: Pricing Biases [HD]
Module 3 · from Problem Solving & Cognitive Biases
Problem-Solving Techniques - Part 1
Brainstorming, the scientific method, design thinking, and reframing. Technique, which the philosophy series never offers.
8 lessons · 1h 23m
Brainstorming Techniques: How to Innovate in Groups · The Scientific Method: Steps, Examples, Tips, and Exercise · The Design Thinking Process
Module 4 · from Problem Solving & Cognitive Biases
Problem-Solving Techniques - Part 2
Creativity, the Cynefin framework, and the Pareto principle. Frameworks for deciding what kind of problem you have.
4 lessons · 34m
A crash course in creativity: Tina Seelig at TEDxStanford · The Cynefin Framework · Creative Thinking: How to Increase the Dots to Connect
Module 5 · from Media Literacy
How Media Is Made and Monetised
How media constructs a claim. The environment where most reasoning failures now happen.
8 lessons · 1h 12m
Crash Course Media Literacy Preview · Introduction to Media Literacy: Crash Course Media Literacy #1 · History of Media Literacy, Part 1: Crash Course Media Literacy #2
Module 6 · from Spot Misinformation: A Media Literacy Short Course
Misleading Graphs and Clickbait
A short, practical drill in spotting misinformation. Four minutes a lesson and immediately usable.
8 lessons · 36m
How to choose your news - Damon Brown · Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? - Claire Wardle · How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin