1. Practice intellectual honesty and avoid intellectual dishonesty.
2. Identify which logical fallacies/cognitive biases/heuristics you’re most guilty of and seek to avoid them.
3. Learn logical fallacies until they’re second nature and you can recognise them anywhere.
4. Learn Edward de Bono’s six thinking hats and apply them to meetings.
5. Watch the best arguments and debates - you’ll learn a lot from listening to the best arguments and watching smart people debate each other.
6. Beware of motivated reasoning (arguing with a goal in mind, with an obvious attachment to one particular belief or conclusion), and mental gymnastics (unjustified leaps of logic).
7. Before you accept the results of a psychological or scientific study as "fact", read the original academic paper yourself, check the parameters of the study including sample size, and make sure it’s been replicated. There is a real replication crisis going on. Facts change. Statistics change. Studies and experiments fail to replicate.
8. Before you get into an argument: Get clear on how words are being defined, this will make sure you’re both on the same page and everyone is arguing the same thing, it will also prevent equivocation and definitional retreats.
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