WHY IS CRITICAL THINKING IMPORTANT Critical Thinking is

WHY IS CRITICAL THINKING IMPORTANT? --Critical Thinking is creative thinking --We are bombarded with information. Where is your umbrella? --Don’t get fooled…again! --It makes you adaptable.

R E T T S E F B IE E EL L P B O D R E I O P E THE GO M G H O S TIN IT E R W R A PO NS HY UP TIO W S AC S? AT D ON AN EAS R

OPEN-MINDED --Open to continuous learning. --Accepting that someone else may have thought of something we’ve overlooked. --Easy when it is not important to us. No threat.

HOW TO GET OVER CLOSED MINDEDNESS -Get over threat– accepting new ideas does not make your old ones wrong. --Commit yourself to the search for the most reasonable beliefs. --Improving your beliefs does not mean you have to say they are wrong. -

TENTATIVENESS Slow down Metacognition Strive for accuracy Gather data through all senses

HEALTHY SKEPTICISM Too much leads to doubting everything and committing to nothing. Pessimism Too little=gullibility

PERSISTENCE Steadfastness, constancy, doggedness, endurance, grit, indefatigability, perseverance, pluck, resolution, stamina, tenacity, constant, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, pertinacious, plodding, sedulous, solid, staunch, steady as time, strenuous, sturdy, unchangeable, unconquerable, undeviating, undrooping, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied Communicating with clarity

FIND HUMOR Intellectual humility. Take responsible risks