Critical Thinking ,which began in 80's America,is a hot words for the middle age and the young now.
From the literal meaning,maybe you think it related to criticism or saying something different,in fact,it is a tool for you to take reliable information and make the best decision.
The frame of critical thinking is like this:analysis、conclusion and decision .let start with analysis.
Anaylsis,it is the first step of critical thinking, it is also important. You should dissect that made you crazy,make your problem or question or target clear. At this stage, you should beleive you can do it, ask "why "many time, and find the reason. After that,you still need to ask "what if" to know some other factors about this problem to get its impaction , correlation, significance and value system. You'd better to make a task list and evaluate them in priority and delete something you needn't .
Next, you come to the conclusion. This phrase ask you to give a solving way or a system of measures. In other words, this step depends on fact, obversed result, experience, belief and assumption. If the presupposes are not sufficient, the conclusions is less viability. You would start with preconditions to do your assumption. Also, you need to be overcurious about "why".
Last but not least, the decisions eaqual to the actions. Most of time, the failure is on because of no continuous moving.
The most important part is the starting. As some other skills, the practices must be done for critical thinking.
One particularly effective technique is critical thinking, a way of approaching a question that allows us to carefully deconstruct a situation.
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