How To Make This Transferable
Once you have learned our basic discernment skill using the Critical Assumptions Test, how do you enhance your skill? In this course you will discover real stories and strategies for growing your discernment skill. Dave Richardson, President of Assumptions Institute, will help you explore media clips from movies, a video game, a political speech, and a podcast to practice using the CAT. You will also find practical tips for how you can pass this vital discernment skill on to friends and family, coworkers, and people in your neighborhood and community.
It is highly recommended that you have completed the course "Introducing the Critical Assumptions Test" before taking this exciting and more challenging course.
Why Learn To Discern?
You are constantly bombarded with information every day. How can you quickly and reliably discern what is true and what isn’t? Is there a practical method that works in the real world? And who has the time to learn about complex ideologies and arguments?
The president of Assumptions Institute, Dave Richardson, takes 40 years of experience discerning truth and distills it into a simple skill that can be learned in hours, and allows you to accurately figure out what is really true in classrooms, media, and the culture. With practice you can use this skill in real world situations in 30 seconds.
How can he do that? Dave knows the world of academia that creates the cultural trends and powerful ideas that influence us all. He has consulted with university professors in major universities for two decades. Dave is the author of the groundbreaking book Transparent: How to See Through the Powerful Assumptions That Control You, and he has two post-graduate degrees including one from the University of Oxford.
Oh, no! Not another ivory tower intellectual! No worries, Dave is the real deal. He grew up in a single-wide trailer house. His dad was a truck driver and his mom was a bookkeeper. Dave knows and is as comfortable with farmers, truckers, loggers, and welders as he is with professors, business leaders, or politicians.
Dave knows the powerful ideas of the university, and helps regular people quickly understand and see through the fake and deceitful narratives that seek to control you. Bringing complex and persuasive false narratives from 40,000 feet to sea level using the power of assumptions is Dave’s gift. He has condensed this all into a simple, practical skill that you can learn in hours. The skill is so simple it is in a mobile app. It will change your life.
When you discover the power of assumptions, you will never see the world the same again, and you will Learn To Discern.
Real Stories
A professor who was the department chair at a major university discovered the power of assumptions. It helped him teach more truth in his classes, revolutionized his research, and helped him connect with God in his professional work in exciting and powerful ways.
A Deeper Dive
Dave Richardson explains the logic of the Critical Assumptions Test, which makes it easier to use. He gives his clues and tips on how to effectively use the CAT to discern what is and isn't true in movies, the news, a podcast, and a popular video game.
Careful Walkthrough
Because the examples in this course are more realistic than the examples in "Introducing the Critical Assumptions Test," Dave Richardson carefully puzzles through each example to help you arrive at the hidden assumptions behind the media. With this enhanced skill, Dave offers practical suggestions and tips how to pass on what you have learned to others.
Course Content
More Learn To Discern Courses!
Seeing Through the Powerful Assumptions That Control the World
Dave applies his understanding of contemporary issues such as wealth inequality, race, gender, and more to reveal the hidden assumptions behind these issues.
Introducing the Critical Assumptions Test
Learn the basics of Dave's revolutionary discernment technique using the power of assumptions.
