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1.8. Critical Thinking
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To use critical thinking, consider the clarity, accuracy, relevance, depth, breadth and rationality of any arguments. Also understand the different viewpoints that may be taken, and how each may result in a different interpretation, based on different assumptions, concepts, goals and other information. With critical thinking, you should discover and challenge all suppositions and test all arguments and conclusions. You should thus ‘leave no stone unturned’. The inner critic that can be an enemy of a ‘soft creative type’ is the friend and mentor of the critical thinker (which is a strange paradox, as both can come up with creative and practical ideas). Some of the questions you can ask in critical thinking include:
Other logical/analytic tools:
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