Jean Moroney on "Tackling Hard Thinking"
In "Tackling Hard Thinking," Jean Moroney teaches practical techniques for guiding one's thinking when the task is challenging. The objective of the course is to teach methods for monitoring one's cognitive progress and strategies for re-directing one's thought when something blocks that progress. Specifically, Ms. Moroney teaches tactics for sustaining thinking despite four common problems which can bring the thinking to a halt: blankness, vagueness, overload, and floundering. The course is organized around these four problems. Although suitable for any adult, "Tackling Hard Thinking" is particularly relevant to professionals of all kinds.
Review the course in detail at her website: www.thinkingdirections.com
Jean Moroney has an MS in Psychology (Carnegie Mellon, 1994), a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering (MIT, 1985 & 1986), and has completed a graduate training program in philosophy at the Ayn Rand Institute (1996). She has ten years' experience in industry as an engineer, project manager, and software consultant.
Since 1998, she has been teaching thinking skills to adults in individual tutorials and group seminars. She has taught concretization skills, critical reading skills, concept definition skills, and methods of psycho-epistemological development.