What are some of the uses for critical thinking? Some uses for critical thinking are reading, writing, speaking and listening. They help us communicate and guide us through. Last year was a critical moment that I had to go about choosing jobs. This decision was based on my future, my happiness, my salary and my future goals. What I chose to do was create a pro’s and con’s list of each position, wrote things out, created an outline and spoke to others and got their advice. After taking a few days, the decision I made was the best one I felt at the time and today I still feel the same.
What does the text mean when it says to check for logic? Checking for Logic helps identify that what you are learning or reading that it is clear, consistent and coherent. Assertion, arguments and assumptions will help build blocks of logical thinking.
How does creativity fuel critical thinking? Convergent and Divergent thinking are ways to fuel critical thinking by defining problems in other ways and looking for good ideas while being opened minded and make thinking fun and exciting to where it become easy to plan out those ideas and put them into action without any issues in the way. What are some of the common mistakes in logic? Jumping to conclusions is a common mistake I often make before I acutally have full evidence of the source, this leads to being judged by others and judging others to quickly before getting the facts. Thinking in all or nothing – this is another area that leads to judgment and not gathering all the facts and putting full blame onto others while using words All, everyone etc. this isn’t the correct way to go about speaking to others because not everyone or all does the same thing, you are speaking for them and creating ideas that are not true and this gets in the way of opening your mind to new things.
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