Critical thinking is your ideas or views on a given situation. I believe a critical thought is considered when it is provided with evidence or any facts. It is not some random ideas that occurs in our mind. Gary Meegan, the speaker in the first video describes critical thinking more as evaluating and analyzing a thinker. He says we can see the world from their perspective or know about them more by thinking how they came down to that thought. On the other hand, Jesse Richardson says critical thinking is when an individual has full engagement, freedom and their own creativity involved in their opinion. He adds on “how to think, and not what to think” to show it is the creativity that matters, not some forced or limited thought of someone. I agree with both speakers and they both also believe critical thinking skills help us understand and be aware of ourselves. It helps us analyze a situation better which will help us know if our opinion is good or bad and change it for better. Critical thinking is important because it can expand our mind or knowledge. With critical thinking skills, we can be confident, more open to challenges and flawed thoughts. With the creative thinking skills, we can be able to think critically and creatively.
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I agree with you that both Jesse Richardson and Gary Meegan discussed critical thinking as organized thinking that involves evidence and fact-based reasoning, combined with creativity and open-ended thought. these two definitions of critical thinking work together since the main premise still exists – evaluation based on facts and evidence with the added bonus of our own personal creativity.