Enjoyed the first days a lot. As participants we thought about our images, learned about biases that develop in our life from our experiences and shared our biases. We had a good laugh at our biases and understood ourselves better. We have started with critically analyzing our thought processes. It was like looking in the mirror without tainted glasses.
I have become more conscious in understanding the biases based on my actions. Having a lot of bias is not harmful but that should affect us and others. It has taught me when to think and how much to think. It’s not that we think critically every time. The exercises were very interesting and engaging. Looking forward to more sessions.
1st two sessions of critical thinking were amazing. The most important thing I learned was that these biases are always there in daily life. we also learned about the 5 steps of critical thinking. I don’t know whether my critical thinking has improved or not but my research skills are better nowadays for sure! 🙂
A lot of sharing and group tasks helped me to look at different perspectives.
The most important learning from today’s session was to know ourselves and to know our thorns. It is very challenging to dig deep within ourselves to find out the things that are causing pain. And it is even more difficult to overcome them.
The tasks given by the facilitators on the second day were much more interesting than on the first day and they involved a lot of analysis, evaluation and decision making. The discussion on the quizzes and the tasks involved a good amount of critical thinking.
Critical Thinking अंतिम अध्याय
आज का Critical thinking का विषय बहुत ही क्लिष्ट था | धर्म, आत्मा, मोक्ष, प्रार्थना,ईश्वर ………ये विषय ही ऐसे हैं , जितना सोचेंगे अर्थ गहन बनते जाएँगे |
मुझे जो महाभारत में धर्म की परिभाषा मिली वो बेहद सटीक लगी |
स्वकर्मनिरतो यस्तु धर्म: स इति निश्चय:।[3] अपने कर्म में लगे रहना निश्चय ही धर्म है।
कोई धर्म गलत नहीं है , मानवता श्रेष्ठ धर्म है ,उसका सही आचरण ही धर्म है |
इसलिए critical thinking अपने निजी जीवन में अपनाते समय थोड़ी कठिनाइयाँ जरूर आएगी, पर इसका इस्तेमाल कर के क्या सही और क्या गलत इसका उचित फैसला निश्चित ही कर सकते हैं |
“ये सफ़र बहुत है कठिन मगर ना उदास हो मेरे हमसफ़र … ”
अध्याय समाप्त !!
(अध्याय समाप्त हुआ है ज्ञान नहीं वह तो निरंतन बहता रहेगा | )
Critical thinking class made me think critically in any situation whether it is personal or professional. As everyone thinks critically whenever it is needed but to be conscious about it that is necessary. I have started realizing and stopping myself to fall under different types of biases, placebo, etc. Even I started thinking and sometimes did research first for any matter. The best part of this class was the discussion which gave better clarity of any topic and let it go on without interruption. I appreciate Amaan sir and Shraddha ma’am for making this workshop interesting, engaging.
With the beginning of this Academic year, I was not finding any other interesting topic except – Critical Thinking to attend.
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 most important thing that I learned was to know ourselves and to know our thorns. It seemed like a big challenge to look deep within ourselves to find out the things that are causing pain. Moreover it is even more difficult to overcome them.
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.
Finally!! I can think critically 🙂 I used to think I am not a person who can question ideas or suggestions that I have been receiving from the other end but the sessions and of course thanx to my facilitators who have in a way imbibe in me the art of asking questions and not just be a passive recipient of information. I can proudly say that I am now a ‘CRITICAL THINKER’ who can identify, analyze and solve problems systematically rather than just by intuition or instinct. Thank you once again and have learnt a lot… 🙂
After attending the critical thinking life class I can now clearly get why it has been made compulsory to attend both critical thinking and emotional intelligence sessions. We are social beings and our thoughts are molded through our experiences and interactions with ourselves and others.
Where last year attending an emotional intelligence life class helped me to further understand how I deal with different situations purely based on what I ‘feel’. Critical thinking life class has helped me to go a step further to also find ways to work on the same and correct the way my ‘thinking’ has been wired. Right from understanding my micro triggers as part of emotional intelligence to understanding my cognitive biases on which I operate in my day-to-day life is what I have learned from critical thinking sessions.
The most important thing I learned was that these biases are like paradigms and we can work on them to make better decisions and look at situations in a more open-minded manner. Many of our fears are also based on these biases and this is what I aim to understand and work on next.