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Title	:	How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions
Author	:	Christopher diCarlo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 398 pages
Published	:	July 26th 2011 by Prometheus Books (first published January 1st 2007)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Education. Skepticism. Logic

How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions Paperback | Pages: 398 pages

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In this witty, incisive guide to critical thinking the author provides you with the tools to allow you to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they’re talking about. These days there are many people whom we need to question: politicians, lawyers, doctors, teachers, clergy members, bankers, car salesmen, and your boss. This book will empower you with the ability to spot faulty reasoning and, by asking the right sorts of questions, hold people accountable not only for what they believe but how they behave.

By using this book you’ll learn to analyze your own thoughts, ideas, and beliefs, and why you act on them (or don’t). This, in turn, will help you to understand why others might hold opposing views. And the best way to change our own or others’ behavior or attitudes is to gain greater clarity about underlying motives and thought processes.

In a media-driven world of talking heads, gurus, urban legends, and hype, learning to think more clearly and critically, and helping others to do the same, is one of the most important things you can do.

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ISBN:	1616143975 (ISBN13: 9781616143978)
Edition Language:	English

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Good roadmap to a way of thinking about your views of the world. It provides terminology, rationale and comparison for multiple views. A good starting point for a more formal entry into skepticism.

When I started this book I was unimpressed by the accompanying diagrams -- they seemed totally unnecessary. And the first part of the book is really a primer for those unacquainted with the tools of critical thinking but it is well written with a certain self-deprecating humor. The author frames the book in terms of the Five Big Questions that most humans attempt to answer in some form or another either through a natural or a supernatural approach. It is designed for anyone who would like to

Pretty good, but covered a lot of ground I'm already familiar with. I was hoping for some new or novel ways of explaining the secular position on "the big questions," but I suppose there's only so much you can say about it.

The title caught my eye, and I'm glad it did. An excellent book on critical thinking. Highly recommended.

First half is excellent.

I'd probably give this 3.5 stars. It's a very solid--and funny!--intro to logic and some philosophy ("intro" being the operative word there: if you've taken deductive logic or Philosophy 101, you probably won't get much more than a review out of this). Fun though it was, there were times where DiCarlo could have fleshed some things out a bit more and added some stronger arguments for and against the supernatural positions that he picks apart. Still, this is a fun, informative and quick read that

This book had three major problems for me.1) The tone. DiCarlo writes this as if he is speaking to a classroom full of students, which isn't really a bad this, but as I am not a student, the tone comes off as a bit condescending/patronizing. I do not believe this is intentional, but it was still off-putting.2) The graphics. 95% of the graphics in this book do not add anything to the text. They are there to show pictures. This would not be as much of an issue if DiCarlo did not refer to them in