Looking Back (Critical Thinking)
Critical Thinking sessions enabled me to make sense of why we act the way we do, and the place those approaches and behaviors stem from. While in some sense there was already some implicit understanding of it (or so I thought), these interactions allowed us to consciously connect the dots and put names on those feelings, especially biases.
On multiple occasions when we collaborated, it expanded my knowledge set and offered opportunities to acknowledge diverse view-points, often making me reflect on my own, and even alter them.
I had always thought of myself as an open-minded person, deliberately wanting to accommodate others’ beliefs duly, but these interactions also shed light on how one must also be pragmatic and not just let our prime emotions take the driver’s seat.
Himakshi Ma’am, as mentioned by you, through collaboration and understanding different perspectives I was able to reflect on my viewpoints, biases and rethink on the same. However altering them might be a gradual process for me ð