CDate:: [[02-28-2024]] Tags:: #🗺️ Links:: [[🏠 My Home]] # Critical Thinking MOC “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald Mindsets of a critical thinker - [[Growth mindset]] - Open Mindedness Combined With Creativity - Beginners Mind - Intellectual Humility - Intellectual Empathy: the ability to accept there are viewpoints other than one's own and they aren't objectively worse or better than your own. What is critical thinking? - Critical thinking is the ability to deeply assess information from a variety of perspectives and apply it to one's problem solving goals. - Critical thinking exists on a spectrum. It's not possible to be a stronger critical thinker with everything we consume. We would never get anything done! Instead, [[What types of situations call for weaker or stronger critical thinking|we must determine what situations call for weaker or stronger critical thinking and act with that in mind]]. How can we be more critical thinkers with through Personal Knowledge Management? - [[Personal Knowledge Management helps you become a deeper critical thinker]] - [[Bottom up notetaking might be less prone to confirmation bias than top down notetaking]] Information Consumption - [[Is Your Information Diet Feeding or Failing You‽|Cultivating a valuable information diet]] - Critically assessing information you read with learning the four levels of reading: [You Have Been Reading Wrong Your Entire Life](https://www.aidanhelfant.com/you-have-been-reading-wrong-your-entire-life-the-four-levels-of-reading/) Analytical Skills - How can we assess if there is a relationship between two things? Argumentation And Logic: - What is the value of inductive reasoning? - What is the value of deductive reasoning? - What are the different types of arguments? - How can we assess an argument? Decision Making Strategies - What different decision making strategies to we have? - We can ingrain [[Mental Models MOC|mental models]] to come to life with valuable frames for seeing problems. Information Literacy - Source evaluation - Bias detection - Fact checking Communication Skills - Active listening - Clear writing - Clear thinking - Persuasive speaking What biases of human judgment get in the way of critical thinking? - [[Human Biases, Heuristics, and Emotional Tendencies MOC]] ## Related MOCs ```dataview list from #🗺️ and [[]] and !outgoing([[]]) sort file.mtime desc ``` ## Related Concepts ```dataview table Status from [[]] and !outgoing([[]]) and !#🗺️ sort file.mtime desc ```