Critical thinking is the mental process for reviewing the origin of your thinking.
In so doing you identify what may have to be unlearned to accept external realities.
It requires identifying tendencies to select information that only confirms your biases and beliefs.
You interrogate your thought processes by asking:
- Why do I think what I think?
- Why do I believe what I believe?
When critically reflecting on my practice
- Why do I hear what I want to hear?
- What informs why I do what I do?
Why do I prefer a reassuring lie to an inconvenient truth?
Critical thinking calls upon INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY
It is when you are actively curious about your blind spots and open to learning by entertaining the possibility that you may be wrong – be aware that some go to great lengths to avoid admitting they may be wrong.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
Critical thinking cultivates change agility (AQ)
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