Category: Critical Thinking

Got to know types of Biases like Confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Cultural bias, Self-Serving Bias etc. There are various instances when we are unconsciously working through these biases.

Here are a few learning of my critical thinking session 3 and 4.

• Murder your darling, which help us to critically evaluate the situation and share our point of view on it.
• Rating the different situation from 1 to 10, that what comes to your priority, that help us to understand what are our “Ethics, responsibility, moral value”. This activity help me understand that each person has his/her own way to think.
• Different types of bias and identifying which types of bias am I applying in my life consciously or  unconsciously.

Over all it was good, and I am still working on system 2.

The title is really strong and contradicting. Same is the expectation for developing critical thinking – murder your biases – the thoughts, views, opinions which were so very comforting and supportive to your system 1.

It’s difficult – extremely difficult – because we have to do it by ourselves. It needs patience, clarity, acceptance, readiness and courage. But that’s the only way to heal, in many different ways and for many reasons. Eg – The topic I chose to – murder my darling was – “Men are not emotional”. Based on what I had seen, heard, and experienced all these years – this was a very easily accepted reality. So, to start off to murder – I looked into the men in my house to see whether they were really emotional? I really struggled hard to recall and see things differently to understand their ways to be emotional as my system 2 had never ever explored or saw through those lenses all this time. And hence there were differences, disagreements and resentments. But with great efforts with my system 2 at least now I can say – “mere ghar ke mardo ko BHI dard hota hae”.:):):):):) I am still work in porgress with my system 2 to observe more and understand their emotional side.

The session was taken by shezin mam and bargavi mam,

first of all the session was full of content and entertaining and lots of fruitful discussion

All the content deliver in complete in detail and facilitator are so relax and clam they are not hurry to just finish the portion, Also they listen each member very carefully and respond in kind manner

In that session we discuss about how the system 1 and system 2 responding in different situation as well as we discuss about understand the different bias:-confirmation bias basically when you like something and second is cognitive bias:based on information.

I think the session is very useful while its comes with students and also it is very important.

I really liked the concept mapping activity. Through this activity, I understood how CT works. I got to know about System-1 and System-2 thinking and I am able to connect how because of these systems and we respond to situations. The debate helped me understand the difference between facts, opinions, beliefs, and truths. I also learn that before making any judgment we need to go in-depth and understand things from a different perspective and also look for the data and reality.

Critical thinking provides opportunity not to evaluate any situation but to evaluate it  critically. For evaluating critically it was told how generally we use System 1 thinking instantly without any pause, which is based on perception rather than facts. Wherein System 2 help to understand about the situation deeper. Sessions shifted the paradigm of following blindly what others say to think critically and have our own clear perspective.