Pros And Cons Of Being A Critical Thinker

My interpretation of Critical Thinking has been challenged by the author of this passage by the dean of college arts and sciences of Santa Carla University author and narrator Peter A Facione. I have come to the conclusion that my initial thoughts of what critical thinking was way off. The author has the reader asking himself questions, and forming scenarios where we actually had to use critical thinking. I think this method of understanding is a great way to teach new readers. Right off the bat Facione has us questioning our initial thoughts. I have a feeling this technique is going to be one of our tools as we come to understand what exactly Critical Thinking is.

I think critical thinking is important because it means reasoning, evaluating, analyzing, decision-making, and problem-solving. We need critical thinking in our everyday life, for us to make any little decision we need to think about it wisely, and how it will affect us. Someone with critical thinking skills can understand the logical links between ideas. For example, during my night shift at the ER, we use triage, which is to decide who is the most urgently in need, and whose injuries are less severe and can

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.

Critical thinking involves evaluating and analyzing data in order to form a reasonable judgment about a particular topic or idea. It is not simply believing a subject matter because someone in authority or expertise said it, but challenging those arguments in order to form a well thought out conclusion. A critical thinker will normally not accept an answer without reasoning; they require evidence to validate or prove their conclusion. The ability to reason logically is a fundamental and disciplined skill that can be learned over time.

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.

Critical thinking is something I use on a daily basis as a nurse. To think critically, you recognize an issue, collect data, gather information to support it, analyze that data, evaluate it, and decide what to do about it. According to Creasia & Friberg (2011), “nursing education is shifting from a purely problem-solving approach to one in which critical reflection mediates the relationship between knowledge and action” (p. 215). As a nurse, you learn all of the “skills” throughout the years, but you also need to learn how to assess a situation and possibly make a quick decision, which is critical thinking. Critical thinking ability has been significantly correlated with nursing competence (Chang, Chang, Kuo, Yang, & Chou, 2011, p. 3228).

Critical thinking is when you think about a situation with a purpose and focusing on he problem. It calls on your experience, it incorporates creativity, analysis, and priority, and sorting to deal with a problem. Clinical reasoning is a more narrow or specific form of critical thinking. It is used when specific problems comes up, like which patient needs to be seen first or which patient is going to need more care. And clinical judgement is the end result of the critical thinking. It is a final decision on how to proceed. The three reasons why critical thinking skills are essential for students and nurses are 1) solving problems; 2) helping with test-taking; and 3) self-improvement and managing stress.

Imagine you’re driving home from a long and trying day at the office, when all of a sudden a car comes zooming into your lane, nearly sending you crashing off the road. Natural instinct might cause you to honk your horn, shout out a series of profanities, or even chase the vehicle down to directly give the driver a piece of your mind.

Students in today’s academic world are simply lazy. Who has time to sit down and critically analyze what is needed to be studied when there are better things to do? In Freire’s The Banking Concept of Education, he delineates the concept of how students today are considered banking concept thinkers rather than where they should be, which is problem posing thinking. Ultimately, Freire’s argument helps recognize how to transform oneself into becoming a critical thinker.

One of the primary challenges of becoming a critical thinker in a contemporary world is the actual speed of change and its complexity (Paul, Elder, Chartrand, Emery, Hall, Ishikawa, Maketa, & Gunther, 2012). Though technology is a great tool which helps in the process, it is also used by other individuals to subjectively filter information making it difficult to trust information that is received. Since we are a money-driven society, one must ask and question motive, making it difficult for humans to think critically because of the subjective opinions or emotions which interferes with the clarity of the process.

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Every one think of that, each of people in the world are individual. “Actually most our thinking are is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right prejudiced”(critical thinking,2013). How people can make themselves really be different from others; start to critical thinking is very important. There are three aspects to make critical thinking valuable---working ability, learning ability and self-supervision.

Critical thinking is meaningful and beneficial in many ways. It is not about the criticizing, instead, it is the thinking about the thinking process. It reflects our own thoughts and perceptions towards certain situation. In my personal experience, by practicing thinking critically, gives me the chance to build up my skills on thinking objectively, and non-judgmentally. It also reminds me of analyzing the situation from different perspectives. And this helps me to be more empathetic about client’s struggles. I have learned not to draw conclusion too fast before I fully assess the situation. By practicing the critical thinking, I am able to understand more about where the clients come from and meet the clients at where they are at. When

I’m self-motivated and resolute on solving any obstacle that crosses my path. I believe that

As a Critical Thinker I believe I have the greatest successes in clear thinking and rationally about what to accomplish and what to believe, I can tell when someone is trying to convince another person or myself to perform a bad idea and approaching problems in a consistent and systematic manner. I can also reflect on the justification of their own assumptions, beliefs and values. Although I would like to improve on my weaknesses, they are the ability to think clearly, understand the links and logical connections between ideas, determine the importance and relevance of arguments and ideas as well as recognize to build and appraise arguments and the last one, identifying inconsistencies and errors in reasoning. The ideas that I like to improve