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Seven habits to develop critical thinking
Form your own opinions
Turn Brain into Mind
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Form your own opinions
Turn Brain into Mind
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1. Understand mental process
Your brain naturally uses mental shortcuts to explain what's happening around you
It's evolved to be fast and automated
Be aware of your cognitive biases and prejudices
Awareness is where it all starts
Your brain naturally uses mental shortcuts to explain what's happening around you
It's evolved to be fast and automated
Be aware of your cognitive biases and prejudices
Awareness is where it all starts
2. Spend time thinking
Evaluate what you see, what you hear & what you read
Evaluation leads to better, less inaccurate conclusions
If you don't have time to think, you'll never think critically
Evaluate what you see, what you hear & what you read
Evaluation leads to better, less inaccurate conclusions
If you don't have time to think, you'll never think critically
3. Motive
Everyone has motive and biases, sometimes you can detect them easily other times it's hard
Evaluate every message you recieve in two ways, both with and without consideration of *messenger*
Understanding motive gives you fresh perspective.
Everyone has motive and biases, sometimes you can detect them easily other times it's hard
Evaluate every message you recieve in two ways, both with and without consideration of *messenger*
Understanding motive gives you fresh perspective.
4. Do your research
Take matters in your hands.
Start evaluation with your own research, via books, internet etc
Use newfound information to remove blind spots
More the relevant information, better the conclusion
Take matters in your hands.
Start evaluation with your own research, via books, internet etc
Use newfound information to remove blind spots
More the relevant information, better the conclusion
5. Question everything
Right questions get you more information, they open up new thinking paths
Question to develop perspective, choose right answers over easy ones
Questioning is how you develop, keep developing.
Right questions get you more information, they open up new thinking paths
Question to develop perspective, choose right answers over easy ones
Questioning is how you develop, keep developing.
6. Question all Assumptions
Assumptions are formed to simplify the reality, however with time, they solidify to become belief system
Don't assume you are right
Assumptions are often tools and forms of manipulation
It is by questioning old assumptions, you welcome new beliefs
Assumptions are formed to simplify the reality, however with time, they solidify to become belief system
Don't assume you are right
Assumptions are often tools and forms of manipulation
It is by questioning old assumptions, you welcome new beliefs
7. Simple is efficient
New information, if irrelevant, increases the complexity of situation. It is overwhelming.
Filter out irrelevant information, use new one as tool to simplify the decision
Always choose well thought out, yet simple decision
Keep it simple
New information, if irrelevant, increases the complexity of situation. It is overwhelming.
Filter out irrelevant information, use new one as tool to simplify the decision
Always choose well thought out, yet simple decision
Keep it simple
Critical thinking is about, being able to think, to know how to make connections between ideas and to know how to evaluate the information.
It is about becoming progressively, less and less wrong.
It is about becoming progressively, less and less wrong.
