Making this world a better place.
By Osigwe
@Osigwe (4)
Nigeria
August 17, 2006 10:02am CST
How do we make this our world a better place to live in? It is more like everybody is in a hurry to contribute to the rut in the world. What can we all do to make it a better place?
2 responses
@littlemint (10)
• China
12 Aug 10
There are various ways to alter this world we live in. However, the method of changing our ways of thinking is somewhat a radical solution. And from my point of view, critical thinking is a path to intellectural adventure.
Critical thinking, in its broadest sense has been described as "purposeful reflective judgement concerning what to believe or what to do." The list of core critical thinking skills includes interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, explanation, and meta-cognition. There is a reasonable level of consensus among experts that an individual or group engaged in strong critical thinking gives due consideration to the evidence, the context of judgement, the relevant critieria for making the judgement well, the applicable methods of techniques for forming the judgement, and the applicable theoretical constructs for understanding the problem and the question at hand.
Though there are dozens of possible approaches to complete this process, the process can be boiled down to concrete steps. First, one should be willing to say "I don't know". That means, questioning everything, especiall some definate conceptions in order to form the more mature thinking after fully consideration, rather than responding too quickly to lead to some irreparable mistakes. The reason why some people can become profoud thinkers of our time is that they have practiced the art of critical thinking by using two main phrases: I don't know and I'm not sure yet.
Undoubtedly, there two phrases are words many people do not like to hear. We are now intertwining with this fast-developed society, only caring for finishing tasks faster and faster so as to cater to our friendes, our bosses, etc. Maybe it is just the inner requirements in this economic society that everyone should to some extent sacrifices his/her freedom to master their own lives, otherwise, they will fall behind others. Such cases exist almost everwhere: we will be readily criticized for changing our minds; our society rewards quick answers and quotable "sound bites"; we're under pressure to utter the truth in 15 secondes or less.
Consequetely, I value stopping a while and thinking of what to do next more and more.