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9 Thinking Behaviours or Critical Thinking Hats
Inspired by an infographic based on a paper by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Have you mastered the art of critical thinking?
"Critical Thinking is the art of analysing and evaluating thinking with a view to improving it."
Critical Thinking is essential skill for every creative professional - or anyone who wants to solve problems, learn and live a better life.
Majority of thinking is bias in one way or another, often without us even realising it. Shoddy thinking produces shoddy results!
The 9 thinking behaviours in these nudenotes provide a framework, with example questions to ask yourself helping to improve your critical thinking.
Better critical thinking results in:
Highlight questions and problems, communicating them clearly to others.
Gather relevant information and interpreting them effectively.
Well-thought out solutions, tested against relevant criteria and objectives.
Openminded, understanding alternative systems. Recognise their own biases and overcome them.
Effectively communicate with others the results and solutions.
Good Critical Thinking skills can have a dramatic on the way your perceive problems in your life. I hope these notes help you to develop your own Critical Thinking skills.
Behavioural Science Cognitive Biases: Understanding Human Behaviour in Life and Business
Inspired by an infographic from ancrath.com
Do you struggle with problem-solving in your business?
This could be because of cognitive bias.
Simply put, cognitive biases are mental shortcuts to help us humans solve problems, quickly, these are also known as ‘heuristics’.
Most of the time this is great...
However, sometimes, it can limit your scope of potential solutions.
These biases all rely on past experiences - the more they work for you, the more you use them.
It quickly becomes difficult to think any differently.
It’s important to acknowledge these when they show up to ensure that you’re solving the right problems, and not losing sight of important flaws in your solution, repeating this bad cycle in the future.
I hope these notes help you to spot a potential limiting mindset in your own work practices.
Unconscious Bias
Inspired by an article by Tanmay Vora.
Another rainy Saturday afternoon spent making nudenotes, this one was (again) inspired by @tnvora - he always makes such awesome content.
I’ve saved loads of his visual recording notes on Pinterest to use as inspiration for my own.
Unconscious bias is such an interesting topic, especially within creative business.
The term ‘cognitive bias’ was coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, meaning “our tendency to filter information, process facts and arrive at judgements based on our past experiences, likes/dislikes and automatic influences.”
Buffy doesn't look too impressed with these notes, but maybe she was just grumpy because it was raining outside.