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5 tips to improve your critical thinking

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everyday decisions stretches before us summer small and unimportant but others have a larger impact on our lives for example which politician should I vote for should I try the latest diet craze or will email make me a millionaire we're bombarded with so many to say but it's impossible to make a perfect choice every time but there are many ways to improve our chances and one particularly effective technique is critical thinking this is a way of approaching a question that allows us to carefully deconstructed tuition reveal its hidden issues such as bias and manipulation and make the best decision is the critical part sounds negative that's because in a way it is rather than choosing an answer because it feels right a person who you is critical thinking subjects all available options to scrutiny and skepticism using the tools at their disposal help eliminate everything but the most useful and reliable information there are many different ways of approaching critical thing but here's one five step process that may help you solve any number of problems 1 formulate your question in other words know what you're looking for this isn't always as straightforward as it sounds for example if you're deciding whether to try out the newest diet craze your reasons for doing so may be obscured by other factors like claims that you'll see results in just two weeks but if you approach the situation with a clear view of what you're at we trying to accomplish by dieting weather that's weight loss better nutrition or having more energy that will equip you to sift through this information critically find what you're looking for and decide whether the new fad really suits your needs to gather your information there's lots of it out there so having a clear idea of your question will help you determine what's relevant if you're trying to decide on a diet to improve your nutrition you may ask an expert for their advice see other people's testimonies information-gathering helps you weigh different options moving the closer to a decision that needs her goal apply the information something you do by asking critical questions facing a decision ask yourself what concepts are at work what assumptions exist is my interpretation of the information logically sound for example in an email that promises you Millions you should consider what is shaping my Approach this situation do I assume the sender is telling the truth based on the evidence is it logical to assume I win any money consider the implications imagine it's election time and you've selected Apple candidate based on their promise to make it cheaper for drivers to fill up on gas at first glance that seems great but what about the long-term environmental effects if gasoline uses less restricted by cost this could also cause a huge Virgin air pollution and unintended consequence that's important to think about explore other points of you ask yourself why so many people are drawn to the policies of the opposing political candidate and if you disagree with everything that candidate says exploring the full spectrum of viewpoints might explain why some policies that don't seem valid to you appeal to others this will allow you to explore Alternatives evaluate your own choices ultimately help you make more informed decisions this 5-step process is just one tool and it certainly won't eradicate difficult decisions for our lives but it can help us increase the number of Positive Choices we make critical thinking can give us the tools to sit through a sea of information and find what we're looking for and if enough of us use it it has the power to make the world a more reasonable place

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