Author:: scotthyoung.com Full Title:: How to Improve Critical Thinking Tags:#media/article Link:: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/03/07/improve-critical-thinking/
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* highlights from 2021-02-08
* Instead of a general-purpose way of making better decisions, reason is a faculty for generating explanations and evaluating those of others
* Therefore, reasoning about a decision in multiple moods, places and settings will give you the greatest variety of backdrops to reason about things. If the decision is the same each time, you’re can be more confident that you have the correct assessment.
* The downside to this is that it means critical thinking can’t just be picked up by taking a few credits in college. It means you need to be learning constantly, about all subjects, in order to make intelligent decisions.
* The upside is that it also means much smarter decisions are possible. Far from just being an abstract faculty you either have or you don’t, critical thinking is part of the process of knowing things to begin with, and that you can get better at it by learning more throughout your life.