• snek_boi@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    People have said “critical thinking”. I agree, but we can be more specific than that:

    • Formal logic to think clearly
    • Relational frame training to think fluidly
    • Human cognitive bias awareness and mitigation strategies to avoid magical thinking or otherwise systematic cognitive errors
    • Discourse Analysis to be critical of any message https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiaYBVAEUk&pp=
    • Mindfulness and acceptance skills to engage with what our thoughts and body tell us, regardless of whether it’s painful or difficult
    • Visible Thinking Routines to make thinking and communication with others easier
    • Research design (Joseph A. Maxwell) and system design (How to Design Programs) to seek information critically and how to systematically tackle challenges
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      22 hours ago

      This covers so many other things.

      My usual specific go-to is how to search the internet for things. But not knowing how to search for hyper-specific things is the symptom of a lack of critical thinking skills.

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        20 hours ago

        other things

        Interesting. So you’re saying that critical thinking is not what I mentioned, but rather it is something different (an “other thing”). What would you say critical thinking is?