Becoming A Critical Thinker

After completing all the exercises from the book. I generated a self-assessment of various things I learned about myself. Such as, what type of thinker I am and how well I use my critical and creative thinking skills in my daily routine. As well as, learning how to test my assumptions based off of my very own experiences as a critical thinker, along with learning how to make an inference in familiar situations from experiences.

Critical thinking is a skill that can be developed by learning over time. Using critical thinking is about having the ability to comprehend and push for answers. It works best with a positive attitude, and a will to learn (Bethel University, 2013).

As Paul and Elder point out, critical thinking is self-guided and self-disciplined thinking that assists us in reasoning in a fairminded way (FOCT, 2017). It allows us as humans to live a conscious and consistent life where rationality, reasonability and empathy and present when faced with problems. While I am actively learning how to become a better critical thinker, I have learned that the first step to successfully think critically, I needed to diminish my power to think egocentric. In my professional life, I find myself evaluating situations with more clarity and looking more closely for factual content in order to base my decisions with more

Beliefs, attitudes and values are three little words that have and make a massive impact on who we are as individuals, who we are as people, and even how the world is viewed by ourselves and others. A belief is something that individuals or groups think, such as believing in a god. Where a Value would be the living life in the ways a religion expects, this value will be made from the belief that the person or group has in their God. The attitude towards this would be the feelings, beliefs and behaviour tendencies towards this, for example praying, reading the holy book,

After reading " CLUES to Critical Thinking" in chapter 5, I disagree with the Supreme Court's decision to allow Law enforcements to strip search an arrested individual who had only committed a minor offense. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Unreasonable can be defined as not guided by or based on good sense, which in this case, strip searching an individual for a minor offense can be seen as unreasonable. The only time a cop should be able to strip search you is when the officer has a reasonable suspicion that you are either carrying contraband or an illegal weapon, that is what strip searches are for. It is not

When I was considering how I could show to you that I not only read Brave New World, but also that I used critical thinking to generate a thought provoking piece. I came up with the newspaper idea because I knew I could talk about current issue while also pretending to be a part of the Brave New World London society. WIth each piece I tried to tackle a difference issue and compare and contrast our society’s viewpoints with their viewpoints.

Trigger warning: This may cause you to change your previously held beliefs! It 's a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life. If you do not have to think about it, it’s a privilege. If you did not want to read this paper out of fear because of the trigger warning, many universities have started allowing students to do this with many of their assignments. Universities were created to help foster the freedom of the human mind, but many have started to focus attention to micro-aggressions and the use of trigger warnings, this is causing students to be unprepared for the post-college world because they view certain topics as taboo, hold on to their beliefs, and focus on punishment rather than education.

In a modern society of 21st century, we live in a “free world”, but talking much about freedom. We consider ourselves as individuals, yet the conception of the word “individual” becomes cloudier than with every day. While we are proudly saying, “I decide for myself, I’m an individual”, some of us do not even recognize that most of our own ideas and principles depend on influence of the society on us. Our behavior is often depends on if we are in a large group or by our own. Our principles and are often come out of imitation of ideas of people who surround us.

Ethics are moral philosophies that manage ones behavior; ethics have to do with ones feelings, emotions, religious beliefs, and overall what is fundamentally right or wrong. Critical thinking is an analysis or style of judgement that helps an individual make a decision or solve a problem. Critical thinking plays a significant role in the ethical process as it is the method in which we decide for ourselves whether or not something is right, wrong or morally ethical. Critical thinking allows one to differentiate between fiction and reality or be able to figure out an unknown. By being a critical thinker, a person is able to mature mentally which in turn will help them figure out their own ethical

Critical thinking is a vital task that must be done in our everyday lives. In “Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking” found at criticalthinking.org, Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul explain critical thinking as “the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances”. Even tough there are many different types of methods to achieve a better quality of critical thinking, Dr. Elder and Dr. Paul discuss four specific ones in the article. All strategies, however, force you to put yourself in an uncomfortable and difficult position to develop a better quality of thinking.

To exists and live on our terms we must convert our life into a creative project. Only by doing this can we sufficiently challenge ourselves to reach our full potential and figure out what it is that we want to dedicate our life to and how we wish to leave a mark in history. To make our life into a creative project, we must consistently set goals and to be a critical thinker by asking questions. Unfortunately, some obstacles prevent us from living our life on our terms. Dependency and legitimacy are why others have authority over us; however, once we are forced or reasoned to do something, be someone, etc. they lose that power, and that’s the time that we must take action. We are consistently ruled by others and the “norms” that society established whether it is knowingly or unconsciously. The fact that others rule us can eventually cause us to feel alienated and once we recognize that isolation, we begin to rebel.

I have been struggling with continuous thinking for a long time. I’ve tried in everyway imaginable to stop it, but it’s been next to impossible. I lost every battle whilst my thoughts ate me alive. Likewise, my major problem was negative thoughts. They are the type of thoughts that could effortlessly turn you into a miserable person. I never truly realized how it hacked into my system or when it began reprogramming me. However, I was too late. I started overthinking the simplest of problems and make them seem much worse than what they actually were. I would take disapproval and criticism as an abusive insult instead of a beneficial outlook. I always disregarded the positive parts, which only made matters worse.

I believe that the reason for primary challenges of becoming a critical thinker in our contemporary world, is being able to be more impartial in our thinking. This is a great problem for most of because it is very difficult for human’s to think critically about a any issue without their thinking process being affected by their individual views, and/or feelings, hindering the clarity of their logical thinking process. “…critical thinking skills is also the most challenging and personally rewarding” (Halpern, D. F., 1998). This challenge is worsened by information that we receive in our contemporary world has been individually penetrated by other people, which makes it hard to depend much of the material that we receive, which drastically affects

If you are being intellectually honest then yeah, most critical thinkers will have considered the obvious up to the not so obvious. Practiced critical thinkers will have an even wider field of available possibilities. To your question. It doesn't take a physicist to arrive at the conclusion that a major media network would have uniform policies as they pertain to dress code, provided wet weather protection and the placement of the company's logo. In this particular instance, once you concede CNN provides its employees with similar apparel then you can move on to the next variable or anomaly to discern credibility of the report.

What is critical thinking to you? To some it may mean making wiser choices, taking time to critically analyze a situation, or to just put greater thought in your everyday life. According to Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Pauls’ article, “Becoming a Critic Of Your Thinking”, critical thinking is defined as the disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances. To us, critical thinking is a very important aspect of life and something we can all improve on. It allows us to think outside the box and put ourselves in others shoes and really look at things differently. We made sure to think about our own thinking habits while discussing these articles and to notice if we were ever being close-minded.