Is Critical Thinking always necessary?
This thought keeps coming to me again and again.- Is Critical Thinking always necessary?
Learning critical thinking can be a lifelong process, but unless one knows when and where it should not be applied, it may result into complicating matters as far as social/ family situations are concerned.
Understanding the basis of reasoning and how has the human ability to reason evolved with time for a purpose, does give a rationale for Critical thinking being an essential skill for survival as well as to form well informed decisions and beliefs.
Biases and Critical thinking go hand in hand. The impact of biases on decision making is something that we fail to realize unless we involve people having opinion which is not in alignment with ours. The best decisions can be made if they are made by a group of individuals not necessarily having the same belief system.
Overcoming the biases will definitely help make informed analysis and apply critical thinking. To find out the biases and then thinking critically in any situation will be helpful, because it will give a scope for different perspectives.
When I took up the quiz shared by Mariyam Ma’am, the result was that I have “Negativity Bias” which I do agree to a certain extent. And I could very well introspect and relate to certain decisions where this bias has played a role.
Critical thinking is not necessary to be applied in all situations but definitely essential skill to develop to be able to read our thoughts, train them and make informed choices/decisions.
Reflection is awesome…sharing personal real life example will help you and others to make the connections and apply it in life.
Very well summed up the essence of this workshop and CT as a skill 🙂
i agree with you. i really like the statement Overcoming the biases will definitely help make informed analysis and apply critical thinking.
I completely agree to the last two written lines in this post which says that,
“It is not necessary to apply critical thinking in all the situation in life but it is definitely an important skill to survive”.
And I also agree that one should know when not to apply critical thinking in the life.
Thank you.
“am just saying” : In certain cases, as long as you don’t anticipate any harm its ok if one skips critical thinking. Also, sometimes not to offend someone we avoid CT……….
“Overcoming the biases will definitely help make informed analysis and apply critical thinking”. – the perfect example for this is the siren story that we heard today which did explain a lot about knowing your limitations and overcoming those to make a decision will surely impact the decision made by us.
Biases does cloud our judgement. Agree to this point that -: Biases and Critical thinking go hand in hand. Thinking critically help us make an informed-choice.
I keep asking myself the same thing, is it really required to put your every thought through a sieve and see what you get? Overthinking will most probably complicate even the simplest issue.