The upfront line: Dr. Toby Groves a researcher, speaker, and writer on critical thinking and expert judgment with a Ph.D. in psychology. He performs live experiments with professional audiences to reveal the invisible influences that drive their decision-making, leading to levels of self-awareness that boost critical thinking power and reasoning effectiveness. In the past, he was an executive in the financial industry and CPA and now speak frequently and write for the blog Metathinking and for professional and academic journals.
The bottom line: The most important things I’ve learned haven’t been from academic pursuits. They've come from unexpected sources, real-life events, and openness to exploring perspectives very different from my own. My research journey began with self-examination, finding more valuable education in my failures than from my achievements. Much of my research is based on profound insights into human reasoning from my son who was both gifted and neurodiverse. He traveled with me to many of my events until a lost him to suicide in 2014, and my work continues to be inspired by his views on neural adaptivity and growth mindset.
