A practical guide to critical thinking skills for anyone navigating misinformation, politics, and social media noise.
Awake is a 144-page eBook built around a framework called the Six Eyes of Critical Thinking six lenses: Attention, Emotion, Framing, Structure, Contrast, and Integrity. Each one targets a specific way your thinking can go wrong.
The book walks through how emotion shapes what you perceive before you've even had a chance to analyse it. It shows how framing controls what you think a story is about.
It's not a textbook, but it's not surface-level either, readers with backgrounds in education, healthcare, and public sector work have cited it as professionally
And it makes the case that asking better questions is a skill you can actually build — not just a personality trait some people are born with.
What you will learn:
How to see what's actually in front of you, not just what you're primed to see.
How emotion shapes your perception and distorts your judgment.
How to ask deeper, better questions in any situation.
How to spot poor reasoning and distorted framing in media, politics, and conversation.
How to build a more resilient and precise way of thinking over time.
Ideal for: anyone who wants to think more clearly and stop being pushed around by noise, outrage, or spin.