BRAIN MATTERS
Unleash Your Power of Critical Thinking
How the scientific method can turn you into a thought leader
Lately, more people are positive they’re right about practically everything. Critical thinking tells us it’s not easy to be 100% right. If you don’t practice critical thinking, your cognitive process may resemble an icefish eating krill — they open their mouths wide, swim fast, and let the tiny krill get sucked into their stomachs. Using learnable critical thinking skills, your thought process becomes refined, and your opinions and decisions more selective and objective.
Continuing the food analogy, imagine mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn at dinner. He would deliberately pay attention to his food, at each moment, without judgment. That’s your mental process with critical thinking.
Applying critical thinking to everything you read, you are less likely to fall prey to the epidemic of blindly glomming onto and disseminating nonsense that doesn’t make sense, isn’t true, and causes fights at the dinner table. I like a good debate or a heated difference of opinion as much as the next person, but it drives me nuts when someone bloviates claptrap with no concern for fact or logic.
Example: 8/20/2022 — a blog, The Mouse Trap, ran a story and video that said…
