Critical thinking paper

Critical thinking paper

Define in your own words what critical thinking means to you, AND describe in detail a scenario in which your critical thinking skills were fantastic, and another scenario in which they were awful. Refer to assigned materials when appropriate.

According to me, critical thinking is the way of thinking about anything for instance subject, content or problem whereby the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by thoroughly assessing and reconsidering the implications or such. Critical thinking normally involves decision making to improve a given situation or offer a better solution. It relies more of solution finding.

Critical thinking relies more not on just looking at the problem, it entails weighing all options one can access to have a solution to a problem. One has to step out of normalcy and view things from a more clinical and less emotional points of view. One example where my critical thinking skills were applied fantastically was during my job searching. When deciding to change career, I decided to weigh all options involved. I came through a job where the pay was high but there were few benefits and I decided not to take it because it was not better than the one I had. I had also to take into account the effect such a job would have on taxes and I realized it would increase taxes. Making decisions to change career does not rely only on basic salary, and critical thinking has to be involved. T could be simpler to think I would earn more but critical thinking helped me to access all the other aspects and make a better decision. In this case, my acritical thinking skills were well applied.

There was a case where I did not properly apply critical thinking skills. There was a scenario where I was to choose between Dutch and French as second languages. Because of my friends advising me to choose Dutch, I went for it. Along the way, I realized that it is not among the mostly spoken language and its job market is low. In this case I make a wrong choice.