In a world full of facts, fakes, and feelings, critical thinking is what keeps us from mistaking popularity for truth.

Effective leadership requires envisioning the organization as one interconnected system rather than isolated parts.

Not long ago, I participated in an exercise that asked educators to define thinking and learning. It was a familiar prompt, ...

Studies show that metacognition is a key intelligence marker. Metacognition involves thinking about your thinking. People with metacognitive ability show both divergent and convergent thinking.

Have you ever found yourself operating on autopilot? Maybe you’ve driven home from work and don’t remember much about the drive. Or maybe you realize, suddenly, that you’ve been scrolling social media ...

"Design thinking," which is gaining traction in the business sector, is about allowing even the most traditional thinker to create fresh, inventive solutions to business challenges by leveraging an ...

Choosing what to study has never felt more overwhelming. Traditional career paths are shifting, entire industries are being reshaped by technology, and new roles are emerging faster than ever. From AI ...

If you’ve been in business or innovation circles in the past ten years, chances are you have experimented with design thinking. You have gone through the brainstorming sessions, you have done the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...

Magical thinking is when a person believes that specific words, thoughts, emotions, or rituals can influence the external world. Magical thinking examples include worrying that something bad will ...

Darel Cookson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...