Century Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving - Mental Illnesses

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PHI-105 21st Century Skills: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

September 4, 2011

Dr. Mike Richardson

The definition of critical thinking to is when your brain comes across a problem and you need to figure out a solution. Critical thinking is used in our everyday lives whether you are figuring out what to plan for dinner for your family, trying to decide if the information you gathered is true (accurate) or false (wrong), or even deciding what career path to choose and how to go about persuading that career. Critical thinking is basically used to examine life and everything you have to make decisions about. To understand the logic of critical thinking you have to make a concept of how to resolve a problem or understand the topic you are thinking about.

"For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things ... and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture." (Francis Bacon, 1605)

The importance of critical thinking is being able to take information and make an informed decision without the influence of your own opinions.