CONVERSATION 1

Carlo Vivar

CRT 100

Professor Barnes

4, September, 2023

The answer to the following questions regarding critical thinking is that critical thinking is the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view of improving it. But what does this mean exactly, Gary Meegan describes critical thinking as art and just like art, critical thinking takes time to master. As for Jesse Richardson, a Ted Talker, he sees critical thinking as a design, not just as art due to the fact that art is just an expression and designs can solve problems. Critical thinking helps understand what people are thinking and how others may see the world. Evaluate thinking in the process to critical thinking, analyze what a person thinks about another, and getting into anyone’s mind are things that we can do with the power of critical thinking. The more we find ourselves practicing critical thinking the more we get good at it and the more we get good at it, it becomes a habit, we learn to make better decisions. with critical thinking we can become better people, understand ours and other people’s place in the world and figure out ways to improve it. Jesse Richardson states that kids should be taught how to think and not what to think. He gives examples on how back in the day if a kid was sick, we would give them heroine-based cough serum and no one would question it. That word “questioning” is important because we need to show others to question things. Being involved in a topic is important, with more involvement other than pushing ideas into someone the more they will want to learn and not feel like they are being forced to. he also says that we should teach innovation and adaptability to help us react in situations we feel unsure of, but to be careful of having biased opinions when one is in critical thinking because that makes us seem Flawed, Ignorant and Deluded. With Critical thinking we can take this away and know that its ok to be wrong. Critical thinking helps us become self-aware and it makes learning fun. Carl Sagan was a poet but also taught us about the cosmos. He is an example of what it is t diversify the mind. I completely agree with these points of view. Manly with Jesse Richardson’s, I agree that we as a community should show kids how to think. this will help them in so many ways which I previously stated but I also think that other than help them develop new mental skills, I feel like it will prepare them for new real-world experiences. In today’s age people seem to have lost their sense of thinking and it really is sad to see that people don’t analyze more than what is shown to us. The more people start to question things the more things and information people can discover. Not everything is set in stone and the way we can find out what truly works for one another is to use critical thinking skills.