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7 Reasons Why Critical Thinking is Important


Critical Thinking

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Critical thinking is a skill you attain developing your judgments by thinking open mindedly, logically and coherently.
7 reasons why we advise practicing critical thinking skills:
  • Critical thinking encourages learning.
  • Critical thinking improves your self-evaluation.
  • Critical thinking promotes good language and presentation skills.
  • Critical thinking encourages creativity and innovation.
  • Critical thinking encourages good decision-making.
  • Critical thinking encourages scientific discoveries and theories..
  • Critical thinking keeps us up-to-date with our 21st century economy.

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In this unit, you will learn why critical thinking is important in our everyday lives.
Critical Thinking is a skill you attain developing your judgments by thinking open mindedly, logically and coherently. By becoming a good critical thinker, you become a more independent and self-directed learner. Every person can improve their critical thinking skills helping them take accurate decisions in their daily life routines at school, university, organization or simply at home.
Here are the 7 reasons why we advise practicing critical thinking skills:
  • Critical thinking encourages learning how to think critically teaches you to be more independent. You do not rely on others and you take full ownership of your strengths and weaknesses. This helps you avoid mistakes improving your judgmental and evaluation skills to a whole new level.
  • Critical thinking improves your self-evaluation. Thinking with reason and making logical justifications helps reflect your own values and decisions in good way. Critical thinking is considered as an important asset for one’s own well-being.
  • Critical thinking promotes good language and presentation skills. By thinking critically you can present your thoughts in an organized manner. Analyzing your data logically helps you express your idea more effectively.
  • Critical thinking encourages creativity and innovation. By thinking ‘out-of-the-box’, you come up with new ideas and creative solutions allowing you to explore alternative options. As opposed to narrow thinking, critical thinking frees your mind and motivates you to understand other situations around you.
  • Critical thinking encourages good decision-making. Being a good, systematic and logical thinker allows you to coherently outline possible solutions to your problems. By doing that you can then easily visualize the best of these solutions and thus, apply it accordingly.
  • Critical thinking encourages scientific discoveries and theories. Science involves theory creation. However, in order to confirm these scientific theories both experimentation and reason are necessary. So critical thinking is and will always be one of the main foundations of science.
  • Critical thinking keeps us up-to-date with our 21st century economy. As you already know, our economy today is based on information and technology. It is changing quickly and effectively. Analyzing information and solving problems systematically helps us adapt to this fast-changing workplace.
So as explained, it is vital to possess good critical thinking skills full of reason and logic. Learning how to master thinking analytically and systematically is considered a valuable asset for any career!