Critical Thinking

To begin with, let's take a look at what critical actually means:

To be critical of someone or something means to criticize them.

When you do so, you will find out both the merits and the faults of the thing you are being critical about.

Actually critical thinking begins with a question. The question is "What must I do in the event that this or that happens?". Then the critical thinker will begin the process of doing the so called critical thinking.

In this modern world, critical thinking is extremely important to help us make fast decisions, based on sound rational and sometimes extremely logical thinking. However, a tinge of creativity is always needed to come up with all the possible options required in critical thinking.

In order to have critical thinking, let's take a look at the 6 steps of thinking critically:

1. Gather enough information

Possibly one of the most important parts of critical thinking is to gather enough information. And to do that, make sure you do it fast, as in as quickly as you could.

Gather as much information as you could possibly do from as many sources as possible. Ask Google, ask your subordinates, your colleagues, your neighbours, anyone at all as long as they could provide enough useful information for you to work on in later stages of critical thinking.

You could think of this like when you play a RPG game, you would go around and talk to as many NPCs as possible to find out more info for a certain active quest.

2. Restrict what is actually necessary

Continuing from above, it is of crucial importance to only gather those information that you truly needs instead of a lot of others junk information that is irrelevant.

From here you could see that you have to restrict what is actually necessary to you and your decision making later on.

Ditch and dump any unnecessary clutter and useless information. Skip meeting with irrelevant people and focus only on those that truly matters.

3. Pick the greatest

From here on, you would probably have gathered enough information to form a list of all viable options. From this list of all probable and viable options, you will begin to pick the greatest options from them all.

An example of this is that you must pick the "fastest", "strongest", "smartest" etc. By doing this, you will create value in your decision making, ensuring that not only your decision is valuable but also your picks would be valuable.

Only by picking the greatest, you will be able to justify your costs. Compile a final shortlisted options.

4. Make a choice

Lastly, in order to finally begin taking an action, you must decide on a choice. From the shortlisted, choose the one, which is most enticing, do-able, justifiable, and such to you.

By making a choice, you must envision all that you need to do from here till the end of the action depending on that choice.

Mentally imagine the pathway or journey of doing or executing the choice you have just made. See if it's comfortable, do-able, viable and such. If it is then go on to the next step.

5. Executing the choice

Here, you will begin executing the choice you made. To execute it, you may do it yourself as the Executive or if you are the Decision Maker, you may delegate it to someone else to do it.

But make sure you have the right person to execute it, otherwise it may all just falls through and nothing will go right in the journey to the end result, which might not even manifest at all, if not the right person doing it.

6. Recap and review

Alas, after all the adventures and misadventures (if there are any), you finally reached the end, the outcome, the results. What lies before you is the marvels or flops of your decision making.

If you have successfully executed your choice as in the previous step, then congrats, you have won yourself the critical skill of critical thinking.

Recap and review, if everything has gone well, if it doesn't then probably, all of the steps above has gone to a mere waste.

If it is, then you simply has to restart the process again, or take a few steps back and make another choice from your list of greatest options.

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That's all of what I know about critical thinking. If you think this story is rewarding, please like and comment below. Thank you for reading. Hope you become a great critical thinker.