🧠 Thinking Skills Are the Operating System of Your Brain
Thinking Skills are the engine room of your learning life. These are the essential mental activities you use to processconnectdecide, and create. They help you understand ideas, generate new ones, and solve real-world problems. But here’s the twist: in the Learn Club system, Thinking Skills are not the final form — they’re the training wheels of Quantum Thinking.

🚨 Clearly, I Was NOT Thinking
Thinking Skills are what save you from this moment. They’re how you spot the pattern, learn from it, and do better next time.
They include the ability to:
🔍 Process Information — to absorb and sort facts
🔗 Make Connections — to link new and existing ideas
🧭 Make Decisions — to weigh options and choose direction
💡 Create New Ideas — to move beyond what’s known
(Sourced from: The Sutton Trust & Education Endowment Foundation)

🌈 Bloom’s Thinking Skills Refresher
Still one of the greatest cognitive frameworks ever built — these six skills are the foundation blocks of thinking:
🧠 Remembering — Recall facts and basic concepts
🧩 Understanding — Explain ideas and interpret meaning
🎬 Applying — Use knowledge in new situations
🔍 Analysing — Break information into parts, explore relationships
⚖️ Evaluating — Justify decisions and critique ideas
🎨 Creating — Generate new ideas, designs, or solutions
Each of these skills is like a cognitive muscle. Learn to flex them, and you’re already building a powerful thinking system.

🧩 Why This Matters in the Quantum Journey
In Lesson 1, you learned to master Bloom’s levels of thinking, step by step. Now, in Lesson 2, you begin to blend those skills and form your thinking stack. This is the phase where Thinking Skills begin to work in harmony, allowing you to move faster, think deeper, and solve with greater fluency.
But remember:
We train the steps so we can eventually abandon them.

⭐ How Thinking Skills Combine for 20th Century Mastery
This is where Thinking Skills begin to mash up into higher-order capabilities:
🎨 Creative Thinking = 🔍 + ⚖️ + 🎨
Use analysis, evaluation, and creation to build new concepts.
🧠 Critical Thinking = 🧩 + 🔍 + ⚖️
Combine understanding, analysis, and judgement to explore problems and solutions.
🛠 Problem Solving = 🧠 + 🧩 + 🎬 + 🔍 + ⚖️ + 🎨
Integrate all six Bloom’s skills to navigate real-world challenges with clarity and creativity.
These mash-ups define 20th Century Thinking Skills — your bridge between linear logic and the quantum leap.

⚛️ From Thinking to Quantum Solutionising
Thinking Skills are linear — Quantum Thinking is emergent.
Thinking Skills require conscious effort — Quantum Solutionising flows subconsciously.
Thinking Skills are useful — but too slow for next-gen thinking.
That’s why we build this solid foundation… only to one day leap beyond it.
Just like Einstein, who said:
“I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”

💡 The Quantum Upgrade
When your Thinking Skills start to operate in the background, you free up your mental RAM for insight, creativity, and instinctive decision-making. That’s what powers Quantum Solutionising.
So yes, we need thinking skills.
But what we really need… is to know when to stop thinking.

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References

Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (2001)
A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

  • This is the revised Bloom’s framework — cornerstone research.

Hattie, J. (2009)
Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

  • Identifies meta-cognitive strategies, thinking skills, and cognitive activation as some of the most impactful influences on achievement.

Education Endowment Foundation (EEF)
Cognitive Science Approaches in the Classroom (2021)

Emphasises the importance of processing, metacognition, memory retrieval, and cognitive load.

The Sutton Trust (2017)
Developing Effective Learners: What the Evidence Says

Demonstrates that thinking skills, when explicitly taught, boost academic achievement and transferability.

Marzano, R. J. (1998)
A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis of Research on Instruction

Provides strong evidence that direct instruction in thinking skills leads to significant academic gains.