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    Critical Thinking: The Skills and Psychology of Questioning the Obvious
    Critical Thinking: The Skills and Psychology of Questioning the Obvious
    Critical Thinking: The Skills and Psychology of Questioning the Obvious
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    Critical Thinking: The Skills and Psychology of Questioning the Obvious

    By Marco Jameson

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    This book consists of two titles, which are the following:



    Book 1: Many people don’t understand what critical thinking is. Moreover, not all the ones that do, apply it in their daily lives. Politics, the media, and so many other aspects of society show how small the number is of people who use their brains.



    Critical thinking means, among others, that you look at multiple sides of a controversial topic, that you can stay objective and put away your biases until you have reached a firm conclusion based on verifiable facts. This skill is highly valuable in job interviews, relationships, and everyday life.



    In order to improve your critical thinking skills, it would be best to adopt the best practices that help you accomplish this task. In other words, some things help you develop this skill, others are a waste of time and effort, or even worse, go against it and cause a degeneration of your intellect and open-minded attitude.



    Book 2: What makes someone a critical thinker?



    The attributes of such a person are elaborately described in this book. Alongside with that, the book highlights the many benefits of critical thinking, an often-neglected brain skills society needs to improve on.



    However, most of the book is focused on relevant and irrelevant reasoning. So often, we attribute certain consequences to the wrong causes. We jump to conclusions based on limited information, emotions, or generalizations. This book will clear all that up by giving you new insights to determine what is relevant and what is not.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEfalon Acies
    Release dateOct 2, 2020
    ISBN9791220202749

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    Critical Thinking - Marco Jameson

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    Chapter 1: Our Concept of Critical Thinking

    There are many ways to articulate the idea of critical thinking, yet each substantive conception must include certain core elements. Consider these short concepts of critical thinking ... getting started with critical thinking Critical Thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceiving, applying, evaluating, manufacturing, and/or examining info gathered from, or produced by, experience, observation, reflection, reason, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its excellent form, it is based on universal intellectual values that go beyond subject divisions: clearness, accuracy, precision, consistency, importance, sound proof, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness ...

    " Critical Thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to think at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. Most people who think critically effort, with constant and mindful effort, to live reasonably, fairly, and empathically. They are keenly aware of the inherently problematic nature of human thinking when left unattended. They strive to lessen the power of their egocentric and sociocentric tendencies. They make use of the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers us-- principles and principles that enable them to evaluate, evaluate, and improve thinking. They work vigilantly to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual stability, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and self-confidence in reason. They recognize that no matter how skilled they're as thinkers, they can always enhance their thinking capabilities and they will at times fall prey to errors in reasoning, human irrationality, bias, predispositions, distortions, uncritically accepted social rules and taboos, self-interest, and beneficial interest.

    They strive to improve the world in whatever ways they can and contribute to a more reasonable, civilized society. At the same time, they recognize the complexities usually inherent in doing so. They make every effort never to think simplistically about complicated issues and always to consider the rights and needs of pertinent others. They recognize the complexities in developing as thinkers, and commit themselves to life-long practice towards self-improvement. They embody the Socratic concept: The unexamined life is not actually worth living, as they recognize that many unexamined lives together lead to an uncritical, unfair, harmful world."

    Why Critical Thinking?

    The Issue:

    Everybody thinks; it is our nature to do so. However, much of our thinking, left to itself, is prejudiced, distorted, partial, uninformed, or down-right prejudiced. Yet the quality of our lives and that of what we produce, make, or build depends exactly on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is expensive, both in money and in quality of life. Excellence in thought, though, should be systematically cultivated.

    A Brief Definition:

    Critical thinking is the art of evaluating and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it.

    The Result:

    A well-cultivated critical thinker:

    raises crucial questions and problems, developing them obviously and specifically;

    gathers and evaluates pertinent information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively;

    comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and requirements;

    thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of idea, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, ramifications, and practical consequences; and.

    communicates successfully with others in determining options to complicated issues.

    Critical thinking is, in short, self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. It needs extensive standards of quality and mindful command of their use. It requires efficient communication and problem solving abilities, and a commitment to conquering our native egocentrism and sociocentrism.

    Our conception of critical thinking is based on the substantive approach developed by Dr. Richard Paul and his colleagues at the Center and Structure for critical Studying several decades. It is relevant to each topic, discipline, and profession, and to thinking through the problems of everyday life. It entails 5 necessary dimensions of critical thinking:

    The analysis of thoughts.

    The evaluation of thoughts.

    The dispositions of thoughts.

    The abilities and abilities of thought.

    The barriers or barriers to critical thought.

    At the left is an introduction of the first 3 dimensions. In sum, the elements or structures of thought enable us to take our thinking apart and analyze it. The intellectual standards are used to assess and examine the elements. The intellectual traits are dispositions of mind embodied by the fairminded critical thinker. To cultivate the mind, we need command of these vital measurements, and we need to regularly use them as we think through the many issues and issues in our lives.

    Chapter 2: The Components of Thinking and Academic Standards

    To learn more about the aspects of idea and how to use the intellectual requirements, check out our interactive model. Simply click on the link right below and

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