Analysis Of Peter Elbow's Essay 'Critical Thinking'

Upon reading Peter Elbow’s essay, I was struck with the realization that I use the doubting game in much of my daily life to make decisions. I even conducted an experiment around my house and noted that all of my family plays this logic-based game also. There is no correct process to use, though, it is merely your brains instinct based off past experience. I see no main difference between these two games and critical thinking, in fact, it appears that the doubting and believing games are actually just branches off of our critical thinking process. The idea behind critical thinking and the entire reason for using critical thinking in any strategy is to evaluate the evidence and form an analysis off of the presented information. The doubting and believing game are

You must always have a little faith in what you’re doing, but make sure you’re thinking logically too, and it never hurts to back beliefs up with evidence. I could have doubted the Pythagorean theorem from the start, but instead, I chose to believe the formula would work and made finding the solution much easier on myself. Elbow’s essay over the differences in the believing and doubting game gives very useful insight into how we evaluate everyday issues. I can recall multiple past experiences where I have chosen to play one game rather than the other and the difference it makes most of the time is astonishing. The doubting and believing games are a part of critical thinking that we never sit down and actually think about, nevertheless, they are a very important issue and should always be taken into consideration. Elbow truly gave some important information on these two theories, and how they naturally come to us. Whether you use the doubting game or believing game in your decisions is not relevant, it’s how you use the information you are presented that makes the world of a