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25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life
by Linda Elder, Richard W. Paul
from Prentice Hall
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Great guide. Highly recommended. 
The book is organized into 25 daily readings, and postulates that by focusing our attention on certain ways of thinking, we can become a more critical thinker, which in turn helps us "observe, monitor, analyze, assess, and reconstruct" our thinking, which can help us live better lives.
After reading this book for the prescribed 25 days, I have to agree that my thinking did improve and my life was made richer by focusing my attention on the daily thinking goals. For example, Day 9 has you thinking... more info
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Political Correctness Disguised as Critical Thinking 
This book does provoke thought which is what it was meant to do, but it doesn't examine itself critically. From the book, "Needless to say, food manufacturers and the sugar industry have a vested interest in avoiding the obesity issue, since they are the primary contributors to it." While the first half of this statement is true, saying that these industries "... are the primary contributors to it [obesity]." is uncritical to say the least. Maybe the prime contributors are the people themselves and their... more info
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Mental Health
I was looking for an excercise book for mental health to keep from becoming distorted and this fit the bill perfectly. It is rewarding to practice the lessons both to yourself and others around you.
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