Critical Thinking

 

 

Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyze, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write. The term critical comes from a Greek word meaning “able to judge or discern”.

 

Critical thinking skills:

·      Observation: The ability to notice and predict opportunities, problems and solutions.

·      Analysis: The gathering, understanding and interpreting of data and other information.

·      Inference: Drawing conclusions based on relevant data, information and personal knowledge and experience.

 

7 steps to critical thinking:

·      Identify the problem. Before you put those critical thinking skills to work, you first need to identify the problem you're solving. ...

·      Research. ...

·      Determine data relevance. ...

·      Ask questions. ...

·      Identify the best solution. ...

·      Present your solution. ...

·      Analyze your decision.

Critical thinking empowers individuals to approach decision-making and problem-solving with clarity, logic, and a systematic approach. Consequently, this leads to more informed choices, innovative solutions, and better outcomes.

 

Clarify your thinking: The first rule of critical thinking is to clarify your thinking. Explaining your review refers to defining your terms, identifying assumptions, and recognizing biases in your thought process. By portraying your reflection, you can better evaluate arguments and make more informed decisions.

 

Synonyms for critical thinking include brainstorming, conceptualizing, conceptualizing, deliberating, inventing, problem solving, reasoning, thinking, abstract thought and consideration.

 

Though often confused with intelligence, critical thinking is not intelligence. Critical thinking is a collection of cognitive skills that allow us to think rationally in a goal-orientated fashion and a disposition to use those skills when appropriate. Critical thinkers are amiable skeptics.

 

Whether you are the most read or have multiple degrees of higher learning, we all are influenced by many sources and create our opinions and bias from our exposure of other’s ideas and statements. Alternate Intelligence now produces deep fakes that questions the authenticity of the spoken word.

 

Every day I hear people I don’t personally know spout speech that just doesn’t seem (to my senses) rational. Politicians, preachers, teachers, doctors and even parents tell tales that may not pass the truth muster test. With all the cultural subjects conversed today (gun violence, body and gender authority, repatriation, homeless and migrant resolution, pain reduction addiction, environmental crisis, …) some sound plausible, some sound irresponsible, some sound ridiculous and some sound off-the-wall-wacko waste of air.

 

If you spend all your time evaluating the question, do you get a suitable answer? Try: “I love you”?