Magical thinking involves the belief that you can influence real-world events with certain actions or rituals. It’s not necessarily a cause for concern, but it can cause distress for some people.

Human thought thrives under constraints like info scarcity and costly errors that forge deep judgment. AI inverts this with ...

An AI-generated analysis of the AI Impact series argues AI’s true value lies in augmenting human intelligence, not replacing ...

This thought pattern, which the American Psychological Association also calls dichotomous or polarized thinking, is considered a cognitive distortion because it keeps us from seeing the world as it ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

We can either defend the habits of mind required for a robust democracy or preside over the automation of thinking and the ...

In today’s world, creative thinking is needed more than ever. Not only do many businesses seek creative minds to fill their ranks, but the kinds of complex social problems we face could also use a ...

There are systems all around us, if we know where to look. A family unit is one system, while the community in which we live is another. That community is part of a bigger system of a county or city.

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. If you want your career to thrive, or your organization to ...

Years ago, I was working in the corporate organizational development office at an international electronics company in South Korea. I was at the beginning of my career and excited for the adventure of ...