Category: Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking sessions have helped me to think critically where I used to think emotionally before. I have understood the importance of having evidence or facts to support your thinking. The sharing done by the participants also helps you understand it better. I have become more conscious in understanding the biases based on my actions. Thank you so much Aman Sir and Shraddha for creating beautiful plans and passing on your learning to us. Looking forward to more such interesting sessions :).

As learnt in Emotional Intelligence Class, we are living in a Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous world (VUCA world). It is more natural for all of us to keep experiencing Amygdala Hijack if we don’t implement the right balance of Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking in our lives. Easier said than done!! We have to be careful of not letting the Critical Thinking turn into Overthinking. It is important to understand that CT is not reflexive, rather it is an analytical stance. It helps you become more aware of your biases, take ownership of your beliefs, question things rather than blindly following/accepting it and finally helps you handle situations appropriately. A positive feeling that comes with these sessions is that we are already instilling it in our students. Eager to get more insights from the coming sessions and on the path to becoming a critical thinker (knowing well that it’s difficult and would happen with conscious efforts only).

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle

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Being critical is HAZARDOUS for your health.

Critical thinking has its positives as well as negatives. It is ofcourse good in all the sense but also has negative effects in others sense.

When it comes to relationships in life, be it parent,  friends, children,  or life partner. There are times when you want to apply critical thinking but your relation can come on stake, so you tend to ignore your critical thinking skill and keep it a side.

Sometimes being so critical effects your personal life, when it comes to questioning a religion, when it comes to questioning a ritual or questioning the paradigms for that matter, it is difficult to change people mindset and again you tend to keep your critical thoughts on a side.

I guess we all have faced such situations,  mention in comments down….. if you want….😉

“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.”

George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

I would have never liked someone who always disagrees to my opinions but lately I have started respecting them. Thanks to the last session which has created this huge impact on my thought system that Disagreements leads to better decision making. We all may like gullible people but as a leader and for the benefit of the organization I have started equally respecting the most argumentative people as well. This is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. The best thing that I could ever learn in critical thinking classes so far. The session by VK on Mathematical calculations for decision making was extremely informative. Helped me to change my investment plans. The sessions are really good. Making a difference and leaving an impact.

Before joining this class I was very reluctant about joining it. I thought it’s all so boring and unnecessary. Ultimately my friends persuaded me to join and when I attended it on the first day I was like WOW. I enjoyed the classes and I look forward for the next session. Critical thinking has taught us how and where to apply critical thinking. It has given me an insight about why critical thinking is required. Shifting paradigms, learn about different types of biases etc.

As per my knowledge, what I understood, Critical thinking is a thinking process involving analysis and keeping in mind the different factors to come up with better decisions. It is also important to know that where to apply Critical thinking and where to not. One of the interesting things was ‘kill your darlings’ where selecting a product which I like and then killing it by researching lot about the negative points and reviews. I also learned about different biases which affects the critical thinking process. Critical thinking is very helpful exercise and it keeps developing every time we apply. Our reasoning also develops and we make more rational decisions.