4 Ways to Develop Your Critical Thinking

This course, 4 Ways to Develop Your Critical Thinking, will help you develop one of the most sought after skills at work. Critical thinking exposes you to a wider range of views, helps you question yourself and others, examines orthodoxies and their consequences, and enhances problem-solving and independence. Employers are increasingly valuing people who are able to think critically  to understand information and use it to make logical decisions. In this course, psychologists Peter Quarry and Eve Ash provide practical strategies to collect and use data effectively, minimize your own biases, constructively and respectfully assess information and opinions and avoid being manipulated or falling into groupthink.

• Collect and use data effectively  curb your emotions, ask quality questions, check documentation and reliability of data, and keep an open mind;
• Recognize and minimize your own biases  anticipate your biases, avoid groupthink and encourage diversity of views and participation;
• Constructively assess others views  analyze respectfully, push for details, check pros and cons and evaluate logically not impulsively;
• Avoid being manipulated  explore intentions, cause and correlation and do your due diligence research;