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Hey, Jordan Harbinger here.
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Welcome to Minnesota Monday.
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I m happy to be here with you kicking off the week with something quick and actionable that you can implement right away.
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Something that will make you more magnetic and effective, hopefully, and a better critical thinker.
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Today, a little something from yours truly.
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Now, when I was in law school,
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I was, let s just say, not the best student in the world, and critical thinking skills there are what save the day.
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This is how you are taught to think and look at everything.
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I needed a little extra practice, and one of the things that I did was I watched a lot of documentaries.
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And now, not just to watch documentaries and learn about these specific subjects, that was the, of course, original intent,
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But I would watch documentaries and look for holes, and I recommend you do the same thing.
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What I mean are holes in the argument.
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Ask why people have the incentive that they do to make the documentary.
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Why is the filmmaker showing these particular images?
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Why did they choose this particular subject in the first place?
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Why are they showing this person on the screen?
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Why are they using these images when they do the voiceover?
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What is their opinion on the matter?
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And it reminds me of kind of those drills you would have in elementary school when you would watch something and it s like, what did the filmmaker think about this?
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But we don t do that that much as adults.
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And we just kind of nod and go, oh, OK, this is bad.
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This other thing is good.
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Also ask yourself.
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in the film who are supposed to be the good guys and who are supposed to be the bad guys think about that because remember that s all a matter of perspective and that perspective is a choice that that filmmaker decided to take why did they choose this side why did they take that perspective what did they stand
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to gain.
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And this is a whole lot of interesting questions here.
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Again, why are they showing this person these images?
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What s the filmmaker s opinion?
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Why did they choose this subject?
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Who are supposed to be the good guys, the bad guys?
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Why did they choose this side?
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And what do they stand to gain?
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That s just the beginning of the questions you should be asking yourself all the time during documentaries.
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Don t just get outraged
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at this don t just get active and stop eating meat or stop eating corn or whatever it is without thinking about this stuff because this is what critical thinking really is and this is extremely useful because then when you start watching the news you ll start doing the same thing and when people tell you things that sound a little suspect
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or that sound not suspect at all.
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They might sound a little suspect after you start asking yourself these questions.
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And this will help you hone your critical thinking skills.
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It will help you make decisions better.
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It will help slow you down when you get emotional about certain topics.
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This is a very useful drill that I did for years.
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I still do it.
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I still do it all the time and I found it to be very, very useful for teaching myself things and learning about what motivates other people.
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So if you like human behavior anywhere near as much as I do, this is a great drill for you to get in the habit of doing.
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of Drills, don t forget about the Art of Charm Challenge, where we ll help you connect with others, create more productive personal and business relationships, and we ve got step-by-step challenges to help you move forward, including some very similar critical thinking drills like the one I just gave you.
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And there s a Facebook group with thousands of other AOC family taking the challenge as well.
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Of course, AJ and I are in there with the rest of the Art of Charm team, helping you all move through those challenges.
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So text CHARMED, that s C-H-A-R-M-E-D, to 33444 here in the states, or just go to theartofcharm.com slash challenge and get rocking.
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Alright everybody, have a great week.