Criticism is more than often directed at a personal level. Step 1: Process — Take in the information i. Step 2: Understand — Comprehend the key points, assumptions, arguments and evidence presented. Step 3: Analyse — Examine how these key components fit together and relate to each other. Step 4: Compare — Explore the similarities and differences between ideas. Step 5: Synthesise — Bring together different sources of information to serve an argument or idea you are constructing.
Make logical connections between the different sources that help you shape and support your idea. Step 6 : Evaluate — Assess the worth of an idea in terms of its relevance to your needs, the evidence on which it is based and how it relates to other pertinent ideas.
Step 7: Apply — Transfer the understanding you have gained from your critical evaluation and use in response to question. Step 8: Justify — Use critical thinking to develop arguments, draw conclusions, make inferences and identify implications. Hopefully this blog has demonstrated not only a few of the differences between critical thinking and criticism, but also the real skill in training the mind to think critically.
Williams, K. Getting critical. By and large these things are controlled by institutions in our society which are impervious to your thoughts, which are wholly contained within your cranium. All it does is make you more hopeful for changes in your life, which may or may not come, but neither outcome happens because of thought-magic.
What I am opposed to is the fact that these assholes try to spread it to the rest of us as a panacea. But to then turn around and tell normal people who are struggling that they are struggling because of a personal defect is just disgusting.
People are taken in by the credibility of these charlatans, by their success, and assume that they must know something. So they buy into the program, self-censor themselves, collapse into themselves, and become incapable of examining the real reasons for their position in life or their unhappiness.
One of the marks of a positive thinking believer is that they are forbidden from asking questions about anything outside of themselves. Their doubts are directed wholly at themselves, not at the outside world. Critical thinkers, on the other hand, concentrate their attention and questions on the outside world. In critical thinking, you gotta ask questions, but you also have to try to find answers.
Asking questions alone does not make you a critical thinker; using your rationality to analyze the evidence and possible answers, however, does. Here are some questions a critical thinker might think about and try to work out:. Who tends to be more affected by it? Who benefits from it? Why do people feel like they have to be paired off in order to be worthwhile people? Are there better ways of doing this? If the answer is no, then where are the limits of personal responsibility?
I will not give my own answers, as I think people should figure them out for themselves, but if you read my blog you should already have a good idea of what I think. The quiz is truly surprising. Such is the whirlwind your mind will enter when you start trying to digest too much new-age fluff. Yea I tweeted about it and got the attention of a few pornsick assholes somehow. Refrain from posting overtly promotional content, and avoid disclosing personal information such as bank account or phone numbers.
Reviews Disclosure: The responses below are not provided or commissioned by the credit card, financing and service companies that appear on this site. Your email address will not be published. Save my name and email in this browser for the next time I comment. I personally believe the Law of Attraction as a motivator or supplement to ones spiritual beliefs but not as business model. I had a friend that got involved in MLM many years ago and discovered that many of these companies use positive thinking techniques to brainwash people.
Without critical thinking it is easy to get caught up in scam. Positive thinking techniques make you feel very good and excited about the product without investigating the product. When you look at the cold hard facts only the people at the very top of these schemes make money. They get paid for the speaking engagement and having people signed up. Thank you for the sharing some different viewpoints about what is and is not critical thinking. After reading these thoughts and thinking about them, I could ask some questions to help clarify some of the thoughts.
Here are some examples of questions. In other words, are we thinking positive when we believe that using critical thinking helps us make better decisions? Could the two modes of thinking work well together?
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