Category: Critical Thinking

Critical thinking… what do I have to learn to be a critique now??

And I was hoping to have sessions full of heavy gyaan, a lot of reading, and reflecting.  But to my surprise, the engagements and provocations were such that, I was actually looking forward to more. I found the sessions interesting while learning about the importance of critical thinking in life. Through analyzing various situations, listening to multiple perspectives, questioning all the possible outcomes to solve a problem was an enriching process. I learned the wonderful tool with a five-step process that increases the number of positive choices we make. It helps us to look through a sea of information and find what we’re looking for. It has the power to make the world a more reasonable place. Another interesting learning was about different types of biases and the best part was when I was identifying my own biases. I am hoping to see myself applying my learning from these sessions and I am happy that I learning to become a critique of my own thinking.

Looking forward to more such sessions!!! Can’t wait to Murder My Darling 😉

The first two days of the ‘Critical thinking’ life class were really nice, I enjoyed the learning. We learnt about confirmation bias and cognitive bias. We also did a research and reflected on the same. I liked the strategies use during the class like group task, individual task, quizzes etc. Our facilitators Tabassum Ashraff and Sarika Agarwal are friendly!

पहले मुझे लगता था की Critical Thinking का अर्थ किसी भी चीज़ में गलतियाँ ढूँढना हैं परन्तु Life class में मुझे पता चला की किसी बात पर गहन अध्यन करना Critical Thinking करना होता है | हमने साथियों के जीवन के उदाहरणों से बहुत कुछ सीखा | मैंने सीखा कि अक्सर हम bias होकर अपने निर्णय लेते हैं | जब हम कोई भी निर्णय ले तो उससे पहले हमें अच्छे से research करनी चाहिए |

As I started with critical thinking life class a day back, I thought it would be a lot of heavy talks and I would really be mentally drained at the end of the day.  But the engagements and provocation really helped me understand the content covered in a better manner and I did not feel tired but active and learned how to question my thoughts/beliefs about ideas. The group members sharing their experiences along with the guidance from facilitators enabled me to think, analyze, question my thoughts and experiences. I understood different perspectives and sometimes the reasons behind those perspectives. Discussions related to the different biases made me identify a few of my biases as well and understand where they come from and also how I can make changes to the same.

I enjoyed the rich discussions happening in these two days and looking forward to the classes to come to explore and understand further.

After attending two days life class, I can understand the importance of critical thinking throughout our life which is helpful to take our decisions. When we take all the steps of critical thinking then the situation is more crystal clear and may be our opinion can be change and you can understand other’s perspectives. There is no place to believe blindly on any thing. To be stress free and to secure our life we should not get into where the crowd is moving. We should pause and think then to move.

Every year when I start the 1st life class, I enter with some idea and I leave with a better understanding of the same idea. I feel critical thinking is something I use almost everyday in my life. But I am excited to understand it better and use it more effectively.

The one thing about life class that can make it and break it for me are the kinds of discussions that happen. And after today I can say that we are surely going to enjoy it  immensely.

Looking at different types of biases and looking for them in my everyday life was an interesting task. I actually had to dig deeper and think critically to make connections.

Looking forward to attend the rest of the sessions!!1

The two-day-long session was a kind of a fresh start after a year-long online class. I liked to have face-to-face discussions with other participants. The best part was Ice breaking using numbers. Also, finding out details of given situations forced us to think from various perspectives. Knowing about various biases improved my thinking and could connect it with various situations.

The first two days of the CT life class have been a roller coaster ride. We discussed a real-life case study of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and the conspiracy surrounding it. We had an in-depth discussion of the real-life situations wherein we either apply or fail to apply CT. We discussed the five steps of critical thinking and two types of thinking which govern our decision making i.e fast and slow thinking. As a participant, we also explored the efficacy of Homeopathy as alternative medicine and its side-effects too.

On the second day of the session, we discussed different types of biases which we all have as humans and how it affects our life. We shared our experiences and incidences where we displayed those biases in our lives. The activities and the tasks helped us to analyse everything from all the perspective and how to use it in our daily lives. The sharing was tremendous and everyone participated enthusiastically. Somehow, we all identified our biases and got to know that how we could overcome them. Looking forward to more such sessions.

पहले दो सेशन का अनुभव बहुत ही रोमांचक रहा | किसी भी चीज़ को देखने का और सोचने का नज़रिया बदला जैसे कि सबसे खास ज़िंदगी में हर प्रश्न का उत्तर मिले वो ज़रूरी नहीं है | कैसे Bais होना हमारे निर्णयों पर प्रभाव डालता है | सबसे खास कि कोई भी निर्णय लेने से पहले हमे उस चीज़ के बारे में गहन अध्ययन करना कितना आवश्यक है |
Looking forward to more session

With the beginning of this Academic year, I was information bias.

As we started with the classes, my interest was growing to learn more and more about the topics. As in this workshop – long discussions, lots of  sharing and group tasks helped us to look at things with different perspectives.

The other thing I learned was to know about different  biases. Many of our fears are also based on these biases and this is what I aim to understand and work on next.