The Ability to Think

The Ability to Think

  • Submitted By: miglue
  • Date Submitted: 08/23/2011 11:19 AM
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Critical Thinking
Humanities ability to think critically has enabled us to secure a spot at the top of the food chain, but where has our thinking lead us since then? The opposable thumb is not the only characteristic that separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom; our greatest ability is to think about thinking, by analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing our thoughts in order to achieve goals. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-constructive thinking. It is an essential part of our everyday life; we are constantly bombarded with situations that require our deliberation and meditation. Unfortunately we do not always have the proper amount of time needed to meditate on a subject or the most reliable information to consider in order to ensure that we make the best possible decisions.
Critical thinking is the mode of thinking about any subject, content, or problem-in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Before someone can begin to control any situations they must first become aware of and understand the situation. The same could be said about thoughts, to develop as a thinker, you must begin to think of your thinking as involving an implicit set of structures-concepts being one important set-whose use can improve only when you begin to take the tools of thinking seriously. When humanity was tested by nature to survive humanity was able to think and arrive at conclusions, which lead humans to join together in tribes for their common good. Using their ability to think and communicate lead to their survival. With time humanity has become the strongest and most dominant force on the planet. Although in many cases we have made a 180-degree turn. We as a species are evolving counter productively by using our minds to destroy one another instead of its more noble purpose of survival. Through fabricated complexity the people disguise...

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