2. Thinking is an important part of our human experience,
and one that has captivated people for centuries.
Thinking skills are the mental activities you use to
process information, make connections, make
decisions, and create new ideas. You use your thinking
skills when you try to make sense of experiences, solve
problems, make decisions, ask questions, make plans, or
organize information. ("Thinking Skills - Analytical,
Critical and Creative Thinking", 2021)
3. Aristotle described the
human person as an
“rational animal” which
only mean that we
humans are the only
beings capable of
reasoning or thinking.
This concept was reiterated
by the modern thinker, Rene
Descartes, in his famous
“cogito ergo sum” or “I think
therefore I exist” which he
meant that we human beings,
whether we liked it or not,
whether we choose it or not,
whether we doubt it or not,
we think.
