About the Course
Learn a thinking method that helps you understand the world and your needs more clearly, communicate more effectively, and pursue your goals more successfully.
The quality of every aspect of your life—from your career to romance to friendships to recreation—depends on how well you think.
But thinking for thriving is a complex process. It involves identifying and integrating countless facts, rejecting contradictions, choosing values and goals among endless alternatives, organizing and essentializing your thoughts, planning your means of achieving your aims, executing your plans, reassessing and correcting course when necessary, and much more.
If you want to live your life to the fullest, you need a method for using your mind most effectively. This course is all about such a method.
You will learn:
- The bedrock facts to which all thinking must adhere if it is to serve your life and happiness—and why these facts are foundational;
- The nature of principles and their role in your life for good or ill;
- The hierarchical nature of knowledge and values, and why understanding these hierarchies is essential to flourishing;
- The value and limitations of “either-or” thinking and its vital role in your success and happiness;
- The nature and importance of clear definitions and why, as Ayn Rand put it, “No mind is better than the precision of its concepts.”
When you understand and integrate these and related principles, you will think more clearly, act more effectively, and love your life more deeply.
Sign up now and think to thrive.
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How This Course Works
This course is interactive and discussion-driven, so enrollment is limited. Register early to secure your spot.
The course is held live on a video conferencing app called Zoom, which you can download for free here. Sessions are video recorded, so if you miss a session (or want to review), you can watch the recording.
The course is 6 hours long, consisting of 4 sessions of 1.5 hours each. Homework assignments are optional. Doing them may require an additional hour or more per week but will greatly enhance what you learn in this course.
Course handouts and supplementary materials are delivered via email. Course participants are invited to an exclusive OSI Courses group on Facebook, where they can post questions and engage in discussions with the instructor and other participants.
Have a question that wasn’t answered here? Read our FAQ or email us at [email protected].
Frequently Asked Questions
OSI courses are live, interactive, and discussion-driven, so enrollment is limited. Register early to secure your spot.
Courses are held on Zoom, and sessions are recorded, so if you miss a session (or want to review), you can watch the recording. You can download Zoom for free here.
Courses vary in length. And some involve homework. Please see the specific course pages for details.
Course handouts and supplementary materials are delivered via email (please register with an active email address). Participants have access to an exclusive OSI Courses group on Facebook.
Zoom is a free video-conferencing app that we use to conduct our courses. You can download it here.
Sessions are video recorded, so if you miss a session (or want to review), you can watch the recording. That said, we highly recommend attending each live session so that you can ask questions and engage with your instructor(s) and other participants.
If you do miss a session, we recommend that you watch the recording before attending the next session.
Anyone aged 29 or younger may apply for an OSI scholarship to cover the full cost of a course. For information on how the scholarships work, please visit our Scholarships page.
You can see all current and past courses here.
If you have a question that isn’t answered in the FAQ or course description, please email us at [email protected].
