Your Transformation Station - 14. "Setting the Standards" To Make the Logical 'Decisions' w/ Favazza

Episode Date: June 1, 2020

"How can you create a transformation in others if there's no transformation in yourself?" Join Greg Favazza podcast host and creator as he teaches you the ways to defining Your Universal Intellectual Standard for critical thinking techniques.   Support the showPODCAST INFO:Podcast website: https://ytspod.comApple Podcasts: https://ytspod.com/appleSpotify: https://ytspod.com/spotifyRSS: https://ytspod.com/rssYouTube: https://ytspod.com/youtubeSUPPORT & CONNECT:- Check out the sponsors below, it's the best way to support this podcast- Outgrow: https://www.ytspod.com/outgrow- Quillbot Flow: https://ytspod.com/quilbot - LearnWorlds: https://ytspod.com/learnworlds- Facebook: https://ytspod.com/facebook- Instagram: https://ytspod.com/instagram- TikTok: https://ytspod.com/tiktok- Twitter: https://ytspod.com/x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to your transformation station. This is your transformation station. We're tapping in to surpassing expectations from the most successful people in the modern day and honing in a new foresight, methodologies, and clairvoyance you never knew. This is your transformation station with your host, Greg Favaza. I have a definition of success. If I could go back, there's not a number. I mean things that I would go back for, but...

What do you do when you lose your purpose? It's okay to struggle. It's okay that you're not okay. I am your host, Greg Favaza. Together, we will go on a journey. This show is all about surpassing our internal dialogue. Rediscovering your true identity. Honing new foresight.

We have a chance to make the world a better place. for our chip. Start living in the example today and become your future self tomorrow. If you can leave our viewers with some good advice to follow, what would you let them know? These things that you're afraid to do? This is your transformation station. I am your host on this journey to a better life, a better version of ourselves. And on today's episode, we are on week 30.

This is your week 30 call to action to your transfer. We are challenging ourselves every day to make ourselves better. And this week's challenge, we are looking to define our own leadership philosophy, our value proposition, our brand. And how do we do that? First things first, do you want to know what a million bucks feels like to have inside your hands? It'll be pretty damn hard to actually hold a million dollars. but to feel like a million bucks you should have felt that

feeling last week on that challenge getting out there and motivate somebody somebody outside your social group tell them that they're doing a good job and they need to keep up the good work now try to do it consistently

you did it once good job you get a pat on the back now stay on top of it and do it every day do it for somebody new every day. And don't do it because I told you to. Do it because you want to. That is what's going to transform your character. Character development is this week's focused, where we look into defining our philosophy. We are defining our philosophy through Paul Adler's critical thinking

framework, I will link this information in the show notes. We are going to utilize a critical thinking model, and we are going to rehearse it, regurgitate it, and start implementing it into our daily lives. It will be the underpinning factor on how you view everything. This is going to help you grow into your next new version, your next, new version, your next improved version of yourselves. Critical thinking is the mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem, in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structure.

Inherent in the thinking, imposing intellectual standards upon them, we are going to incorporate three principles. The elements of thought, it's our real. reasoning, our intellectual standard that should be applied to the elements of reasoning. And lastly, the intellectual traits. This will be associated with a well-cultivated critical thinker that results from being consistent and discipline in the application of the intellectual standards to the elements of thought. That means you are going to be doing this daily.

Seven-day challenge. Before I share this information, I want your commitment to stay true to this for seven days. Seven consecutive days. If you miss one, you start over. If you can stay true to this for seven consecutive days. If you were to say how to speed read, if you want to read faster,

or would you like to learn how to read more efficiently and understand the content that you're reading? What would you choose? You probably would start with the question. crawl, walk, run theory, right? You would want to be able to understand what you're reading before you can start reading quickly. This is what we're doing.

We are defining our philosophy through a universal intellectual standard. In today's society, we have a massive amount of information. We are subject to the media. We're subject to people's opinions. We're subject to podcasts such as your transformation station. God, we can't even forget biases and logical fallacies, but that's a whole other monster. We need to look at our elements of thought, our reasoning. We have to take into account all of our reasoning has a purpose.

All of our reasoning has an attempt to figure something out to settle some question to solve some sort of a problem. All of our reasoning is based on a problem. assumptions. All the reason is done from a point of view is based on data, information, and evidence. All the reason is expressed through and shaped by concepts and ideas. All the reasoning contains inferences, interpretations, and which we draw conclusions and give meaning to data. Within all that it leads somewhere and has implications and consequences. We have to develop a universal intellectual standard in the way we think, in the way we hold ourselves accountable.

And we are going to do that through our elements of thought to determine the quality of our reasoning. You want to have these intellectual standards in the, you know, the way. the back of your mind and everything you do and every thought you think. Clarity. Could you elaborate? Could you illustrate what you mean? Could you give me an example?

Accuracy. How could we check on that? How could we find out if that's true? How could we verify or test that theory? Precision. Could you be more specific? Could you give me more details? Could you be more exact?

Depth. What factor? make this difficult. What are some of the complexities of this question? What are some of the difficulties we need to deal with? Relevance. How does that relate to the problem? How does that bear on the question? How does that help us with the issue? Breath. Do we need to look at this from another perspective? Do we need to consider another point of view? Do we need to look at this and other ways. Logic.

Does this all make sense? Does your first paragraph fit in with the last one? Does what you say follow from the evidence? Significance. Is this the most important problem to consider? Is this the central idea to focus on? Which of these facts are most important? Lastly, fairness.

Is my thinking justifiable to the context? Am I taken to account? count the thinking of others? Is my purpose fair given to the situation? Am I using my concepts in keeping with educated usage or my distorting them to get what I want? Being consistent in the application of standard thinking to the elements of thinking result in the development of intellectual traits.

These are the intellectual traits I have set for myself as my future self to carry intellectual humility intellectual courage intellectual empathy intellectual autonomy intellectual integrity intellectual perseverance

confidence in my reason and fair-mindedness you will start to develop these following characteristics you will start to raise vital questions and problems, you will formulate them clearly and precisely. You will gather and assess relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret effectively.

Come to a well-reason conclusion and solutions. You test against relevant criteria and a standard. Think open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought. Recognize and assessing a need to be. Their assumptions, the implications, practical consequences. You will begin to communicate effectively with others, figuring out solutions to complex problems. Doing this.

Staying consistent. This is your creed. Your morning. This is the heart and soul of your morning routine right here. Every week, pieces and advice that will change you for the rest of the rest of the rest of. of your life. If you stay consistent with every week's challenge, you will be your future self today. Except I'm only one step ahead, just so I ensure you are getting the right information. That is it for this episode. Just a quick recap, you are defining your leadership philosophy.

You are defining your own philosophy in critical thinking, the elements of thought, your intellectual standard, and your desired traits. They all go hand in hand. So that is it for today. Critical thinking model, I have those locked in the show notes for more specifics. If you're a visual learner or an auditory learner, you got both. So if you're not subscribed to your transformation station, hit the subscribe button. We are doing this weekly challenge for 30 weeks, which is remaining until next year. Then we are our new sales.

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