Critical Thinking: The Three Important Elements Of Critical Thinking

What is critical thinking? What comes to mind when you think of it and try to break down what it is? Critical thinking is best described by The critical thinking community as aka (cct) “Critical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking.” Critical thinking can be defined as three important elements. These elements are reasoning, questioning, and clarity with out these elements mastered one cannot become a fluid critical thinker

People may not notice but us humans do a very minimal amount of critical thinking. Why do we do so little you may ask? It’s not because humans are dumb but merely misguided. Many of humans do not think critically on a regular basis because they have not yet been taught how to and have never given a thought of how life would be If as an individual were more aware. Be careful and mindful when thinking critically be sure not to over see the true

Self-regulation helps the critical thinker check himself for conscious thinking and consciously evaluate anything presented before a critical thinker.as the experts stated in Pereter A. Facione in critical thinking: what is it and why it counts “to mean “self-consciously to monitor one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities, and the results educed, particularly by applying skills in analysis, and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questioning, confirming, validating, or correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results.” I think self regulation also plays a part in hearing out others and analyzing what they have to say. In other words critical thinkers needs to shut out their own