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How to Improve Critical Thinking Skills (Adjusting Your Perspective (Put…
How to Improve Critical Thinking Skills
Honing Your Questioning Skills
Question your assumptions
make a lot of assumptions about almost everything
What does it mean to question assumptions?
We can question assumptions in a similar way
Don't take information on authority until you've investigated it yourself
taking information on authority can be useful
tend to label information as either coming from a trustworthy or not trustworthy source
using your instinct to investigate questionable pieces of information
isn't satisfied with an explanation
ask the person to elaborate
read about it or test it yourself
what deserves more research
determined to be true in your own judgment
Question things
Asking questions is the quintessential act of critical thinking
Finding the answer, and finding it elegantly,
Adjusting Your Perspective
Understand your own biases
Understanding what your biases are
where they may affect how you deal with information
Think several moves ahead
Think several
Try to imagine the possible futures the problem you're working on may take on
Read great books
reading isn't only for bookworms
reading and asking questions
Put yourself in other peoples' shoes
Empathy can also help you develop your critical thinking skills
it's improving your negotiation tactics
help you imagine their motivations, aspirations, and turmoils
be persuasive, or just plain be a better person
Set aside at least 30 minutes a day to improve your brain function
Solve a problem a day
Find the time to exercise consistently
Eat the right kinds of foods
Putting It All Together
Understand all your options
weigh the options
believing that we're stuck with only one option
Surround yourself with people smarter than you
throw away your ego
hobnob with people smarter than yourself
Fail until you succeed
Be fearless in the face of failure
Failure is just another way of figuring out what doesn't work
the truth is that successful people fail until they succeed