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Find people who think critically and listen to them criticize stuff. Hint: There are an awful lot to be found on podcasts.
by tboyd47 4y ago
Find people who think critically and listen to them criticize stuff.
Hint: There are an awful lot to be found on podcasts.
- nerpderp82 4y agoCriticizing is small, not entirely healthy subset of Critical Thinking. CT is much much more than criticism. Contextualization, path dependence, understanding motivations, not allowing someone else to decide the dimensionality of the problem or the weight of those dimensions. Most critics I see just make snide remarks about Chesterton's Fence. And to OP, this isn't a snide remark, but due to your typos, which I often make, you might have ADHD, if you do and is undiagnosed, CT is all the more difficult. Another aspect in embracing CT, you need to be emotionally and intellectually honest with yourself, this is by the hardest aspect. If you try and expand your CT while not growing emotionally, you will be constrained in many ways.
- tboyd47 4y agoOP is not asking about some kind of 12-step program or technical topic. He's asking about a forgotten activity in this day and age: using the ol' noggin. Ordinary people have been doing that long before eggheads got paid to sit in rooms and produce 12-step programs on "CT," so the answer is simpler than they'd have you believe. Independent thought is like any other human skill; you learn by imitation. Really! You'll not only pick up all the mental skills you'd hear about in books (just without their fancy names), but the non-mental skills too -- like knowing when's your turn to speak, how to crack a joke, and how to silence self-doubt.
- nerpderp82 4y agoHow are you able to clarify what the OP intended and at the same time as admonish one for offering their viewpoint? Putting the critical in critical old timey commenter person!
- tboyd47 4y agoThis is the quality content you come to HN for :)