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3 Simple Habits To Improve Critical Thinking
Presentation Creator : George Bakalis
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical Thinking :
- The mental and emotional function.
- The evaluate the reliability of the information.
- Decide what to think.
- What to do through reasoning based on all
the possible facts at his disposal.
How to improve your critical thinking skills:
1. Questioning assumptions
2. Reasoning through logic
3. Diversify thought
Questioning assumptions
A lot of companies, when trying to plan a new long-term strategy, ask:
- “How do you know that business will increase?”
- “What does the research say about your expectations about the future of the
market?”
More important questions are:
- “What if our clients changed?”
- What if our suppliers went out of business?
These sorts of questions help you gain new and vital perspectives that help hone your thinking.
Before you make a decision, make sure you do good research.
3 Simple ways
- Try to be the client.
- Ask yourself questions as a client.
- Research your expectations.
Reasoning through logic
What mistakes lead to failure for your company?
- Do not a generalization for your products
- Before you make a decision, make sure you do a good research
- Purely emotional decision making is bad news for you.
What is this going to success your company?
- Pay close attention to the “chain” of logic
- “Post hoc” thinking
- Improve data quality
- Link different data
- Analyze your data
- Enrich your data with theory
- Implement changes and keep track of outcomes
Diversify thought
Seek out a variety of thought and collaboration
How can you achieve that?
- Try to solicit different points of view.
- Make friends with people in marketing.
- Communicate with people and acquire a variety of thought.
- Ask for advice from people in your workplace.
- Get out of your bubble and talk with new people from your workplace.
- Εscape your usual thinking and gain richer insights.
PRESENTATION END
Thank you for watching my presentation and you can send your questions to
george.bakalis@rapidbounce.co

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3 simple habits to improve critical thinking

  • 1. 3 Simple Habits To Improve Critical Thinking Presentation Creator : George Bakalis
  • 2. What is Critical Thinking? Critical Thinking : - The mental and emotional function. - The evaluate the reliability of the information. - Decide what to think. - What to do through reasoning based on all the possible facts at his disposal. How to improve your critical thinking skills: 1. Questioning assumptions 2. Reasoning through logic 3. Diversify thought
  • 3. Questioning assumptions A lot of companies, when trying to plan a new long-term strategy, ask: - “How do you know that business will increase?” - “What does the research say about your expectations about the future of the market?” More important questions are: - “What if our clients changed?” - What if our suppliers went out of business? These sorts of questions help you gain new and vital perspectives that help hone your thinking. Before you make a decision, make sure you do good research. 3 Simple ways - Try to be the client. - Ask yourself questions as a client. - Research your expectations.
  • 4. Reasoning through logic What mistakes lead to failure for your company? - Do not a generalization for your products - Before you make a decision, make sure you do a good research - Purely emotional decision making is bad news for you. What is this going to success your company? - Pay close attention to the “chain” of logic - “Post hoc” thinking - Improve data quality - Link different data - Analyze your data - Enrich your data with theory - Implement changes and keep track of outcomes
  • 5. Diversify thought Seek out a variety of thought and collaboration How can you achieve that? - Try to solicit different points of view. - Make friends with people in marketing. - Communicate with people and acquire a variety of thought. - Ask for advice from people in your workplace. - Get out of your bubble and talk with new people from your workplace. - Εscape your usual thinking and gain richer insights.
  • 6. PRESENTATION END Thank you for watching my presentation and you can send your questions to george.bakalis@rapidbounce.co