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What Is The Importance Of Critical Thinking

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A) I would like to think that I am a fair-minded person and do not make judgments based on prejudices and other negative factors. However, I do have to admit that I do at times come to conclusions about people and situations quickly without thinking. Many times I will allow my mood dictate how I think throughout the day. If I am tired and overwhelmed, I will react to a problem negatively without stepping back and thinking the dilemma through. More often than not, when I respond this way I always end up regretting it and unfortunately have hurt other people's feelings. Also sometimes when I am faced with a situation that involves thinking critically, I become overwhelmed and tend to just go with the most comfortable solution that takes less …show more content…

Paul & Elder (2012) states that overly pessimistic thinking can rob a person's happiness, and a person's thinking determines every aspect of his or her life. Personally, I have found these things to be true. The majority of the time I try to hide my pessimism from others because I do not want to affect other people's moods. Sometimes, I have made situations worse by thinking negative when facing …show more content…

As a society, we are continuously learning new things and having to keep up with the current technology compared to years ago. Paul & Elder (2012) writes about how as humans we are more comfortable in learning a task and repeating that task. It does take some people out of their comfort zone when jobs change, and we have to learn new things to complete our work. I am one of the people that hate change. I do it because it is necessary but it makes me uncomfortable, and it scares me. I worry if I will be able to keep my job if I am not able to learn something that has changed. I feel I am scared because it threatens my stability in life. I realize that I am comfortable in learning a task and just doing that job; therefore I do not have to think critically. It takes a lot more effort to think critically, and I realize I have not been reaching my full

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