Critical Thinking: Improve Your Academic Standards and Objectivity

By Marco Jameson

Many people don’t understand what critical thinking is. Moreover, not all the ones that do, apply it in their daily lives. Politics, the media, and so many other aspects of society show how small the number is of people who use their brains.



Critical thinking means, among others, that you look at multiple sides of a controversial topic, that you can stay objective and put away your biases until you have reached a firm conclusion based on verifiable facts. This skill is highly valuable in job interviews, relationships, and everyday life.



In order to improve your critical thinking skills, it would be best to adopt the best practices that help you accomplish this task. In other words, some things help you develop this skill, others are a waste of time and effort, or even worse, go against it and cause a degeneration of your intellect and open-minded attitude.



Find out today what you can do to become a more intelligent, critical thinker.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Efalon Acies
• Release date: Oct 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220202671

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Critical Thinking

Improve Your Academic Standards and Objectivity

By Marco Jameson

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Our Concept of Critical Thinking

Chapter 2: The Components of Thinking and Academic Standards

Chapter 3: Useful Ways to Improve Critical Thinking

Chapter 4: The Wrong Way to Enhance Critical Thinking

Chapter 5: About Objectivity

Chapter 6: Critical Thinking Skills for Job Interviews

Chapter 1: Our Concept of Critical Thinking

There are many ways to articulate the idea of critical thinking, yet each substantive conception must include certain core elements. Consider these short concepts of critical thinking ... getting started with critical thinking Critical Thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceiving, applying, evaluating, manufacturing, and/or examining info gathered from, or produced by, experience, observation, reflection, reason, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its excellent form, it is based on universal intellectual values that go beyond subject divisions: clearness, accuracy, precision, consistency, importance, sound proof, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness ...

" Critical Thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to think at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. Most people who think critically effort, with constant and mindful effort, to live reasonably, fairly, and empathically. They are keenly aware of the inherently problematic nature of human thinking when left unattended. They strive to lessen the power of their egocentric and sociocentric tendencies. They make use of the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers us-- principles and principles that enable them to evaluate, evaluate, and improve thinking. They work vigilantly to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual stability, intellectual humility, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and self-confidence in reason. They recognize that no matter how skilled they're as thinkers, they can always enhance their thinking capabilities and they will at times fall prey to errors in reasoning, human irrationality, bias, predispositions, distortions, uncritically accepted social rules and taboos, self-interest, and beneficial interest.

They strive to improve the world in whatever ways they can and contribute to a more reasonable, civilized society. At the same time, they recognize the complexities usually inherent in doing so. They make every effort never to think simplistically about complicated issues and always to consider the rights and needs of pertinent others. They recognize the complexities in developing as thinkers, and commit themselves to life-long practice towards self-improvement. They embody the Socratic concept:

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