Critical and Creative Thinking
Critical and Creative Thinking
COM/600
2013
Critical and Creative Thinking
Critical thinking is an important and valuable skill to have. Critical thinking affects both your professional lifestyle as well as your personal lifestyle. Critical thinkers should encompass skills needed to thoroughly analyze all the variables in a problem. During critical thinking, decisions should be based upon logic, and relevant and accurate data. Problem-solving and decision making is part of our everyday lives. It is important to use critical and creative thinking when solving problems and making decisions. Without thinking critically, you may miss out on important details that may help you come up the best solution or make the best decision.
Identify an important decision you have made that required critical and creative thinking
One of the most important decisions I have had to make that required critical and creative thinking is selecting an undergrad university to obtain my bachelor’s degree. This decision required critical thinking because the ultimate choice would have a crucial impact on my future endeavors. This decision also affected the major that I would select, which was another decision that required critical thinking. Both of these important decisions influence where I am in life now.
Discuss your decision-making process and ex plain how critical and creative thinking contributed to the quality of your decision
There were many factors that contributed to the decision-making process of selecting a school to attend for my undergraduate studies. One of the first and very important factors that I considered was the school’s accreditation. I critically assessed the accreditation of the schools I was accepted to while keeping in mind the effect it may have on my employment opportunities. Two of the five schools’ accreditation were questionable. Critically thinking, I concluded that I would omit the two universities with the questionable
COM/600
2013
Critical and Creative Thinking
Critical thinking is an important and valuable skill to have. Critical thinking affects both your professional lifestyle as well as your personal lifestyle. Critical thinkers should encompass skills needed to thoroughly analyze all the variables in a problem. During critical thinking, decisions should be based upon logic, and relevant and accurate data. Problem-solving and decision making is part of our everyday lives. It is important to use critical and creative thinking when solving problems and making decisions. Without thinking critically, you may miss out on important details that may help you come up the best solution or make the best decision.
Identify an important decision you have made that required critical and creative thinking
One of the most important decisions I have had to make that required critical and creative thinking is selecting an undergrad university to obtain my bachelor’s degree. This decision required critical thinking because the ultimate choice would have a crucial impact on my future endeavors. This decision also affected the major that I would select, which was another decision that required critical thinking. Both of these important decisions influence where I am in life now.
Discuss your decision-making process and ex plain how critical and creative thinking contributed to the quality of your decision
There were many factors that contributed to the decision-making process of selecting a school to attend for my undergraduate studies. One of the first and very important factors that I considered was the school’s accreditation. I critically assessed the accreditation of the schools I was accepted to while keeping in mind the effect it may have on my employment opportunities. Two of the five schools’ accreditation were questionable. Critically thinking, I concluded that I would omit the two universities with the questionable
References: Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (2010). The importance of accreditation. Retrieved from http://www.acics.org/students/content.aspx?id=4320 Didier, S. (2009). What are the characteristics of critical & creative thinking?. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/info_12023000_characteristics-critical-creative-thinking.html Khibir, C. (2011, June 4). Difference between thinking and critical thinking. Retrieved from http://www.differencebetween.net/science/nature/difference-between-thinking-and-critical-thinking/