Why is critical thinking so important?

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If it is used for learning, it is exhaustive, and it is not superstitious about any authoritative scriptures. - If you look at the world, there must be a standard of right and wrong, good and evil, right? Otherwise, criticism for the sake of criticism is no different from what kind of person wants to be famous and crazy.

It also has the advantage of allowing others to think differently and not to be superstitious. - However, if it seems to criticize everything, that is, not to criticize "a certain one", this kind of selective criticism, but carrying the banner of "critical thinking" without selectivity, it is despicable. The negative impact on society will be very large.

To err is human? Carrying the banner of critical thinking, just staring at this "pass", then there is no good person. On the other hand, if you don't say "a certain one", hehe, then "this one" is a good person, although he didn't say it, he always forgot to criticize "this one".

Criticism deals with the problem of relativity analysis, and the problem of relativity analysis is the source of creative thinking.

By the way, critical thinking is the thinking of human progress.

The reason why critical thinking is so important in today's society is, in fact, in my opinion, a lot of the reason why something becomes important is because of scarcity. What is critical thinking, in my opinion, the essence of critical thinking is to find the key node of things, or the key problem, and then rethink and sort out.

But this thing is actually scarce in today's society. Because our children are too well-behaved, decades of exam-oriented education have been telling them to study hard, but there may be few people who tell them why they should study hard, they are told to be polite, civilized, and told to study hard to get into a good university before they can succeed. But not everything they understand why, and not everything is so logical.

Only when we cultivate our own critical thinking, only when we really learn to ask questions and learn to sort out the key nodes of things, can we better understand things, and can we effectively screen and filter the massive information we receive every day, and then extract and turn it into our own effective information, and even output it again. Rather than blindly accepting.

In fact, in addition to critical thinking, there are many good ways of thinking that are worth learning, we to learn, to understand a new way of thinking, in essence, is also training their own underlying thinking logic, which determines what we will use when looking at a thing, what way to think, it also determines what we see, what kind of words we understand.

Learning to think critically is only the first lesson in our thinking progression, but it is also a crucial one.

Critical thinking is a general term for human rational cognition and thinking methods, and the development and innovation of understanding are ultimately obtained through this kind of thinking. Moreover, critical thinking is also a measure of the progress of human civilization, so critical thinking is very important.

Why critical thinking is so important.

I have always believed that despite the difficulties of popularizing critical thinking education, the awareness of the importance of critical thinking is relatively common. Because we all understand that critical thinking is a general term for human rational cognition and thinking methods, and the development and innovation of understanding are ultimately obtained through this kind of thinking.

Recently, however, I heard that some experts have explicitly pointed out that critical thinking is an "empty thing" and is useless. I was surprised, but I also had a lot of feelings.

Ouyang Kang, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, pointed out in an article published in 2012 that critical thinking is the most conventional human thinking, which is associated with human openness and transcendence, and is the most important subjective condition for the progress of human civilization. If the development of human civilization has always needed critical thinking, then contemporary mankind, especially today's China, needs to strengthen the conscious critical spirit.

It should be said that Ouyang Kang's expression of the status and role of critical thinking is both appropriate and wonderful. I think it is completely correct to say that critical thinking is "the most important subjective condition for the progress of human civilization". This is to say that without critical thinking, there can be no progress in human civilization.

If we talk about the cultivation of innovative talents, we must talk about the cultivation of thinking ability; When we talk about the cultivation of thinking ability, we must talk about the cultivation of critical thinking ability. So, I was surprised by the notion that critical thinking doesn't work.

First, critical thinking.

Contribute to innovation in our work and life.

1. Critical thinking helps to find problems, we should often use another way to discuss the ways and methods of our own lives, reflect before going to bed, and think about whether our life today is meaningful. Ask good questions, complete half of the experiment, science starts with questions!

2. Critical thinking helps to conceive multiple solutions, divergent thinking: brainstorming and Osborne's law.

3. Critical thinking helps to make changes and adjustments in a timely manner.

Second, critical thinking helps to cultivate producers and creators of ideas and knowledge, rather than just users and consumers of ideas and knowledge, thereby promoting the development and progress of human civilization.

Third, critical thinking helps to cultivate the habit of public reasoning and establish the logic of public discourse, so as to continuously rationalize people and society.

It tells us how to be reasonable, how to identify others, and sometimes how we ourselves are unreasonable, and how to refute this unreasonableness.

Fourth, critical thinking is both a thinking skill and a personality or temperament; It can not only reflect the level of thinking, but also highlight the modern humanistic spirit.

We believe that critical thinking is a purposeful and self-disciplined judgment, and the basis of judgment is interpreted, analyzed, evaluated, reasoned and explained at the level of evidence, concepts, methodology, standard setting, and contextual factors, ......People with the ability to think critically are accustomed to getting to the root of everything, are thorough in their cognition, make reasonable judgments, keep an open mind, have a flexible attitude, seek fairness in their evaluations, are able to face subjective biases calmly, make cautious judgments, and are willing to reconsider when necessary, have a clear understanding of the points in dispute, deal with complex matters in an orderly manner, be diligent in collecting relevant information, choose reasonable standards, focus on exploring the problem, and insist on seeking the most accurate results when the environment permits.

Critical thinking helps us identify problems, ask questions, and think about problems from different perspectives to explore solutions. Criticism mobilizes our experience, stimulates new motivation to learn, and prompts us to solve problems and improve the status quo.

If you can't find a standard answer, take a look at the following points:

Critical thinking is thinking with a critical spirit, which is the opposite of blind thinking.

The critical spirit is the unity of the spirit of questioning, the spirit of negation, and the spirit of affirmation.

Characteristics of Critical Thinking:

Independent, not trusting others.

Systematic, not generalized.

Truth-seeking, not sycophancy.

Reflexive, not once and for all.

Open-minded, non-opinionated.

This kind of reverse thinking is still good.

First, look at the problem and push back the good from a bad angle.

Second, this kind of thinking is conducive to considering the comprehensiveness of the problem.

Thirdly, the disadvantage of this thinking is that it is easy to produce extreme methods.

We hear the concept of critical thinking all the time and we all know it's important. But every time I mention this concept, I have to ask for a moment: What exactly is critical thinking?

As an important concept in humanities education and liberal arts, critical thinking is not as clear and recognizable as a physical term, and different people may have different perspectives to define it.

So even if we've seen this concept many times, the next time we see it, it's still not easy to concretize it into easy-to-understand words and phrases at once.

Once, when I was telling others what critical thinking is, I summarized Mr. Wan Weigang's explanation in the elite day class. I found that the effect was very good, and everyone immediately got a sense of what kind of thinking ability critical thinking is. It may not be the most accurate, but it is easy to understand and fully embodies the characteristics of critical thinking.

So you can also review this important concept from this perspective.

The core critical thinking skills can be divided into 5 types.

1.Explore new things. That is, the ability to investigate the unknown and obtain information. If no one tells you what to do, can you decide for yourself what to explore?

2.Gain insights. Faced with a lot of varied and disorganized information, can you gain an insight?

Faced with a lot of information, you know which information to choose and which information to ignore; Faced with very little information, you can analyze useful insights like an archaeologist. With this ability, if you become a financial analyst, you can find some information in the financial statements that others can't find, and provide a perspective in investment that no one else can provide.

3.Choices and decisions. Do you have the ability to make choices, make decisions, and be able to analyze and foresee the consequences of decisions (what is the best?) with limited information and potentially biased insights?

What's the worst? What should I do if the outcome is different? Also, if there are no rules, can you make your own rules and lead others to complete tasks?

That's where leadership comes in.

4.Understand others. The ability to organize and manage a team requires you to know what everyone in the team wants and the conflict of interest between people.

Read more literature and be serious**, and you will analyze the demands, motivations, and interests of each character, what conflicts exist between tasks, and how conflicts are resolved. You know that different people have different opinions about a thing, and you can listen to the opposite point of view. A product manager's ability to connect users, products, and engineers is critical.

5.Influence. Can you convince others to accept your point of view? First of all, you need to be able to express yourself clearly, which is related to the level of writing and presentation. Then you have to have the ability to empathize, to convince someone, preferably from that person's point of view.

Most Muchang has been volunteering for college entrance examination candidates, and his experience of critical thinking is particularly profound.

See] 1. The data of some college entrance examination voluntary data filling software is inaccurate.

2. The professional display of the system software is incomplete.

Sense] Some candidates and parents use it, due to the lack of experience in high-reporting and the understanding of the overall data burning, the "full receipt according to the order" style is used as the basis for filling in the report, which is "terrifying".

The accuracy of decision-making is quickly determined by the degree of mastery and processing of the underlying data. Maintaining critical thinking is conducive to making better decisions and not blindly worshipping so-called "authority".

Ask yourself when you get the data: Is this information reliable? How can it be verified? What are the consequences if the information is inaccurate? How can it be avoided or remedied?

We often say that "professional people are left to professional people to do", when choosing professional people, remember to judge, this person is "professional"? Even if you are professional, professional people will make mistakes. Instead of blindly worshipping "authority", maintaining critical thinking can make us less pitfalls