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Have you been promised success if you follow a few quick and dirty &quot;rules&quot; or &quot;secrets&quot; of success? Are you tired of irrelevant analogies that do nothing for you but make you feel inadequate? Have you had enough of highly metaphysical concepts and not enough practical solutions? Have you had your fill of grossly exaggerated claims that try to trick you into thinking success is easy? Are you all &quot;affirmationed&quot; out? You are not alone.<br><br>Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. Year To Success is a full year course in success, designed to be a practical guide to achieving your definition of success. Each day of this course will, through practical application, increase your odds of achieving success. It has been said that one line of wisdom can change your life more than volumes of books. Imagine what hundreds of pages of wisdom can do.<br><br>Year To Success is perhaps the most complete book on success ever written. It uses my &quot;formula&quot; for success: education + inspiration + action = success. Education: each week starts off with two educational articles and ends with two more educational articles. Inspiration: the third day of the week is a &quot;success biography&quot; on someone I believe is one of the most successful people in history. These success biographies are full of inspiration to help keep your flame for success burning on high. Action: each of the educational articles has one or more action steps associated with it. Taking action and getting results are what this book is all about.

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This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions.<br><br>Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills.<br><br>&quot;Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime.&quot; – Bo Bennett<br><br>This 2017 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies, over a hundred cognitive biases, practice lessons, and some common questions and answers.

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Claims are constantly being made, many of which are confusing, ambiguous, too general to be of value, exaggerated, unfalsifiable, and suggest a dichotomy when no such dichotomy exists. Good critical thinking requires a thorough understanding of the claim before attempting to determine its veracity. Good communication requires the ability to make clear, precise, explicit claims, or &quot;strong&quot; claims. The rules of reason in this book provide the framework for obtaining this understanding and ability.<br><br>This book is about the the eleven rules of reason for making and evaluating claims. Each covered in detail in the book. These are: <br><br>1) Acknowledge the Limits of Your Knowledge Regarding the Claim.<br>2) Explore Your Biases Related to the Claim.<br>3) Isolate the Actual Claim.<br>4) Clearly and Precisely Define Each Relevant Term.<br>5) Use Terms That Reflect the Scope of the Claim Accurately.<br>6) Operationalize Terms When Possible.<br>7) Make the Claim Falsifiable When Possible.<br>8) Express an Accurate and Meaningful Level of Confidence.<br>9) Convert Causes to Contributing Factors When Appropriate.<br>10) Make Strong Analogies and Call Out Weak Ones.<br>11) Filter All Relevant Assumptions Through These Same Rules.<br><br>The bottom line: the Rules of Reason will help you to become a better thinker and communicator.<br>

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Many of our ideas about the world are based more on feelings than facts, sensibilities than science, and rage than reality. We gravitate toward ideas that make us feel comfortable in areas such as religion, politics, philosophy, social justice, love and sex, humanity, and morality. We avoid ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. This avoidance is a largely unconscious process that affects our judgment and gets in the way of our ability to reach rational and reasonable conclusions. By understanding how our mind works in this area, we can start embracing uncomfortable ideas and be better informed, be more understanding of others, and make better decisions in all areas of life.<br><br>Some uncomfortable ideas entertained in this book:<br><br>– Political correctness can be harmful<br>– Identity politics is a dangerous game<br>– Morality is functionally democratic<br>– Victims often do share some of the responsibility<br>– God is a far more horrifying character than Satan<br>– There is no such thing as freewill<br>– Americans are manipulated into being pro-war<br>– Non-whites can be racist, and women can be sexist<br>– Some people do &quot;choose to be gay&quot;<br>– Sometimes the bad guys win<br>– Obese people are not perfect the way they are<br>– It&#39;s okay to find inappropriate jokes funny<br><br>Facts don&#39;t care about feelings. Science isn&#39;t concerned about sensibilities. And reality couldn&#39;t care less about rage. <br>Uncomfortable ideas. Prepare for a bumpy ride.

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