Critical thinking involves analyzing choices, explaining connections, interpreting sources, drawing conclusions, challenging statements, finding the core, discovering abilities, and establishing the purpose.
According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, employers see critical thinking skills as an essential element (99.2%) in today's workplace. Unfortunatly, while critical thinking skills are the #1 most desired skill set sought out by employers today, only 55.8% of graduates are proficient. Critical thinking can of course be taught within the classroom but for one to truly become a master of these skills, they need practice with real-world experiences to cement the skills into habits one naturally uses in their daily life. By identifying and understanding what skills are needed to become an effective critical thinker and making a conscience effort to practice these skills in your everyday life, one can increase their proficiency and value to employers.
CRITICAL THINKING IS ESSENTIAL IN EVERYDAY LIFE:
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Many of the necessary skills needed for critical thinking follow the natural path of dyslexic thinking with perhaps a bit more of a challenge in the explanation of connections process, as often dyslexics, being big picture thinkers, have trouble organizing the various knowledge they have identified in connection with the situation being they are unaware why others do not naturally see what they are able to see without much effort.
- Dyslexics have an amazing long term memory regarding stories, experiences, and knowledge they find interesting that they often draw from when analyzing decisions and solutions. Remembering endless situations and scenarios provides a strong foundation of information for dyslexics and helps to examine the why behind choices and outcomes.
- Dyslexics are naturally logical and often see more effective and efficient paths for processes. This natural tendency carries over to their ability to interpret sources, as their unquenching curiosity will drive them to find reason and purpose for every source if not initially known.
- Inference and intuition provide a foundational awareness for many dyslexics, that enables them to draw deep understanding and potential outcomes based on correlated knowledge they embrace. Dyslexics are natural pattern recognizers and as we all know patterns repeat, providing dyslexics with a clear vision of the future path of actions in addition to the cause and effects of such actions.
- Dyslexics are driven with a strong desire to understanding the why in everything they encounter because understanding the core is essential to their ability to store information in their brains. This deep need for obtaining the core purpose is the birth of their unparalleled curiosity, in effect requiring dyslexics to question every source of new knowledge, and sometimes, even old known knowledge they are introduced to.
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