What is Critical Thinking?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2015
- What is critical thinking and why is it important for everyone to learn and be able to use it? I attempt to answer these and other points about critical thinking here.
There are some great resources where you can learn a lot more about critical thinking and how to do it:
(1) criticalthinkeracademy.com
(2) www.khanacademy.org/partner-c...
(3) criticalthinking.org
(4) skeptic.com
(5) web.randi.org
To see more of my writing and videos, check out my blog at mncriticalthinking.com
Oh man, that audio. I want to watch this but I just.. can't. I can't.
On the other hand, the closed captioning is so wrong it's glorious.
bg6b7bft I acknowledge that there is an audio issue with some distortion and echo but it's not un-hearable! Anyway, I spoke to an A/V tech tonight after the first comment above on this and I finally have a FULL resolution. I don't think I should re-record this video from scratch as I think this can be heard. You can find a full transcript for the video on my blog if you absolutely can't watch this. mncriticalthinking.com/2015/06/04/video-what-is-critical-thinking/
Chris Shelton WIth _that_ solution I can do both; watch the video on mute and read along. Thanks!
bg6b7bft I might have come across as a spoiled little princess that was unwilling to watch your video because of a little echo. While true, I'm also being picky out of concern for you;
If a Critical Q&A video had sound issues, I'd just sit through it because those are informal videos. They come across as a conversation with your subs, and it's acceptable if they sound like they were recorded in an airport bathroom. _This_ is a vid on a subject that I know is important to you, meant for a wider audience, and I would hate for it to get ignored just because the wider audience is full of spoiled little princesses.
Glad to hear this is a one-off problem, and am looking forward to more content. It was meant as positive feedback - I just have a hard time not sounding snarky in TH-cam comments.
No problem. I appreciate the feedback and very glad it spurned me to resolve it once and for all.
bg6b7bft Your post made me turn on the closed captioning. HILARIOUS! Thank you so much.
Critical thinking means asking yourself "How do I know?" when you believe something is true. It's carefully examining the reasons for why you believe something to be true, and whether those reasons are valid ones.
It involves being able to admit you don't know whether something is true, and changing your mind when you discover new evidence or when you re-examine your reasons for a belief. It's especially important for examining beliefs you hold that have an emotional impact so that you avoid falling into the trap of believing something because it makes you feel good. Some truths are unpleasant, or even unbearable, and it can be difficult to accept them when they make us feel bad.
anon8109 and yet in regards to tom cruise, did he seek out everyone and everything the good and the bad before he got involved in scientology? and then use critical thinking to made a wise choice/decison? obviously NOT! did he seek out everyone and everything good and bad before he came to his i'm right, everyone else is wrong in regards to how he (and every scientologist!) think that all psychiatry and psychology is not only wrong but all of it is EVIL? obviously not! how can one use critical thinking when EVERYTHING is based on 100% biased knowledge? i wonder if cruise has even heard of critical thinking much less know what it means, much less use it!
The reasons you listed is why I try to consistently try to ask those 6 critical question all the time. I admit I don't always succeed but I find it help me think and to a certain degree analyze the world with a semi-open mind.
Thank you Chris Shelton. I learn so much from you videos.
I still dig the content, but oh man, the reverb!!!
Chris, you're wonderful! and what a valuable lesson about not using critical thinking to tear each other down. There's too much of that.
Once again, you amaze and inform! Applause!
Another excellent video, Chris!
Enjoying your exploration of epistemology.
Thank you for this, love hearing your thoughts--so cogent! I hope you make a series of critical thinking teaching videos, with methods and examples!
Great video, Chris. I've thought for a long time now that abandoning one's critical faculties is essentially abandoning one's humanity. It's abandoning the wonderful ability to change one's mind - a scary (at times) but very rewarding and necessary thing.
GREAT video Chris. Thank you!
Great topic and very well presented.
Excellent video! Very informative!
Practice makes perfect. If this is your start in a new direction , I would recommend a do over to fix the audio. Then you would have I nice base from which to build a critical thinking edifice.
I love your videos and your valuable information to interested viewers.
A very sure way to evaluate the value of what critical thinking brings forth is to examine it with your heart, and when you follow your heart you can't ever be wrong.
You aren't paying any attention to what I'm saying. At all.
Chris.....Yes, I listened to your message. It was very clear. I cant understand your comment. Please explain.
Most important question to ask yourself is Cui Bono?
Very informative!
Good video, Chris. The school of LRH (also referred to as Scientology) never allowed critical thinking--it was Ron's way or the highway.
i am incredibly amused that tom cruise's latest movie is the ad i skip right before this video
I like when you say that we are humans and we do mistakes, I think that to get a critical thinking it's need a hard training and practice, I started using it when I compare the history of two nations to see why one of them is strong and one of those who leads the world and the other one is weak and condemn to be slave to another nations. Not only in that subject but I use it in everything that encounter me in my life, it's a way to understand the movement of life and that what I'm seeking for?
Well said. Thanks
A very interesting, informative anlysis of critical thinking, especially when you explain anger and emotion and how it plays a part in it. Interesting since Scientology seems to degrade and dismiss both as some kind of illegitimate emotions that must be surpressed competely in a Spock-like manner (since they were allegedly left over from the alien beings within us, or something.) I suspect that kind of thinking can be damaging when emotions arise and one doesn't know how to properly channel and use them effectively, such as in the case of Righteous Anger towards injustice. Is this a problem in long-time Scientologists? Anyway, keep up the great videos!
nhprman 'wax happy' Hubbard says! Scientology teaches people to overcome cognitive dissonance right from the early days of the indoctrination process
Hello Chris. I really enjoy all your videos yet I have a hard time understanding why people have not been taught critical thinking in school. I know I was and it started in 8th grade; maybe I am a little longer in the tooth :-) than some. Do you have any research that indicates when this type of teaching was done away with?I was recently at the coffeehouse of a local (very expensive) private university in my fair city and a female student was absolutely beside herself because her professor had wanted her to use critical thinking in a paper she had written. "Who ever heard of requiring THAT!" she complained.
+Dawn Schaeffer LOL.I can't speak with certainty on an exact time when critical thinking skills stopped being important in education, and I know some teachers personally who try very hard to teach these in their curriculum, so to me it looks like a bit of a mixed bag. I do know that education has changed radically over the last 100 years.
First ask, "IS THIS TRUE?" that gets you pointed in the right direction from the start.
great video yet again chris and yes makes you think! however, what about tom cruise? he was passionate about learning where he would seek knowledge from everywhere and everyone to make a wise informed decision,but yet he ditched the critical thinking in regards to scientology, since OBVIOUSLY he didn't look into everything and everyone before he got involved in scientology! however, your last point about anyone using critical thinking to "poke holes" in other's and to think they are superior and prove how right they are,and are using critical thinking the wrong way and not understanding it really, well if that isn't tom cruise, they i don't know what/who!
Did you just forget to pair up ur microphone with its recording device?
I disagree that faith plays no part. There is prophetic wisdom sent to us by the One Who created us. Let's don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. We are spiritual beings and we do have guidance. The Baha'i Faith teaches that there are five kingdoms in creation: the mineral which has the power of cohesion, the plant which has the power of cohesion and growth, the animal which has the power of cohesion, growth and senses, the human, which has the power of the above plus the rational soul which enables us to know that we exist, and fifthly, the divine kingdom of the messengers of God, who teach humanity the same spiritual message through the ages, such as the Golden Rule, as well as social guidance, which varies according to the needs of the age in which they appear. So critical thinking should take into account the guidance of the prophets as well.