BUILD YOUR BRAIN WITH CRITICAL THINKING

BUILD YOUR BRAIN WITH CRITICAL THINKING

Many are tempted to separate affective and moral dimensions of learning from cognitive dimensions. They argue that the cognitive and affective are obviously separate since many intelligent, well-educated people lack moral insight or sensitivity and many less intelligent, poorly educated, or uneducated people are morally good.

Critical thinking, understood as skills alone separate from values, is often used to rationalize prejudice and vested interest. Moral integrity and responsible citizenship, understood merely as “good heartedness”, are themselves susceptible to manipulation by propaganda. The human mind, whatever its conscious good will, is subject to powerful, self-deceptive, unconscious egocentricity of mind. The full development of each characteristic — critical thought, moral integrity, and responsible citizenship — in its strong sense requires and develops the others, in a parallel strong sense

Critical thinking means making reasoned judgments that are logical and well thought out. It is a way of thinking in which you don't simply accept all arguments and conclusions you are exposed to but rather have an attitude involving questioning such arguments and conclusions. It requires wanting to see what evidence is involved to support a particular argument or conclusion. People who use critical thinking are the ones who say things such as, 'How do you know that? Is this conclusion based on evidence or gut feelings?' and 'Are there alternative possibilities when given new pieces of information?'

Additionally, critical thinking can be divided into the following three core skills:

1.    Curiosity is the desire to learn more information and seek evidence as well as being open to new ideas.

2.    Skepticism involves having a healthy questioning attitude about new information that you are exposed to and not blindly believing everything everyone tells you.

3.    Finally, humility is the ability to admit that your opinions and ideas are wrong when faced with new convincing evidence that states otherwise.

In Competitive Exams, we have to use this (critical thinking ) skill to solving the questions in a lesser time and with good accuracy.

CRITICAL THINKING ALLOWS US TO THINK A SITUATION IN MORE THAN ONE DIMENSION.

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