Why critical thinking skills matter at work
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Our brains make thousands of super-fast assessments and quick calculations every day. Most of these are automatic, we don’t even realise it’s happening. But sometimes we need to take time to think more pro-actively, carefully weighing up decisions and questioning what we’re told.
This is called critical thinking, and it’s a vital soft skill to develop for school and work. In this guide we’ll look at:
- What is critical thinking?
- Why is critical thinking important?
- Examples of critical thinking.
- How to improve critical thinking.
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What is critical thinking?
Here’s the official definition of critical thinking from the Foundation for Critical Thinking:
‘Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skilfully conceptualizing, applying, analysing, synthesising, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reason...
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