UNIT - 1
Critical Thinking
Know Thyself
Class 12 Critical Thinking Full Exercises | NEB Grade XII Compulsory English Note | NEBdesk |
Critical Thinking
1. Have you made your own precept after you read this lesson? What is it? Share it with your friends?“Small changes sum to huge result”
Start thinking about what you might want to change about yourself or your life. Sometimes we make personal changes for ourselves, and sometimes we feel pressured to make changes for other people. Think about why you want to change. Is it for you, or for someone else?
Changes in my sense are building habits that help to enhance our daily lifestyle. If a person hardly exercises then a sudden stroke of doing 100 pushups won’t help him outreach the goal of getting fit. It’s pretty sure that he will quit his pushup habits soon. Rather if he does 5 pushups on the first day and gradually increases the number he might find a great change in himself. Doing small changes every day on ourselves builds automation in our tasks. It’s more like psychological affect. The human mind always tries to sneak for an easy solution for every problem. So starting any task immediately is difficult for the human mind and it will not last long. Setting a goal of reading 100 pages of a book every day isn’t good practice if you are a newbie in reading books. You might complete your task on the first day but eventually, your mind finds out it’s quite difficult to retain this habit. So you will quit. Small changes made every day pile up to create good habits. While climbing the stair we don’t directly jump from the first step to the fourth step, do we? We go step by step, don't we? Being consistent is the key and to obtain it we need to pile up small steps every day.
2. According to Josh Lanyon, “If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.” Justify this statement with your logic.
Critical thinking is a mode of thinking that primarily focuses on actively analysing, conceptualizing, evaluating the gathered information. It is reasonable and skilful thinking that converges on deciding what and how to solve a problem.
According to Josh Lanyon statement, critical thinking is the most essential thing that people wants. Critical thinking helps to look at things from various or different perspectives. It includes purpose, assumption, concepts, empirical grounding, reasoning leading to conclusions, implications and consequences, Basically everything that comes to our mind while solving a problem.
Every day we think critically to do any task. As a student, there are lots of homework assignments, school projects to do in our free time. In this free time, we need to think critically about when to do assignments when to submit school projects this all needs our critical objectivity and thoughts. To make any decisions we need to think practically and critically. If we are not thinking critically then on which basis are we going to make a decision? We need to either make decisions in prejudice and bias way, assumptions, personal preference or we are left with no decisions at all.
All mankind will definitely find a problem in their life, to tackle it we need to think critically and it is a spontaneous process. Justice would not be made if people stop thinking critically. However, the ability to think critically is not inherent but has to be developed. The school system should encourage that critical thinking than just facts memorizing.
Writing
Write an email to your friend explaining an interesting class you had.
Date: 2021/9/8
Dear Rahul,
I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits. I am absolutely fine here. I am having online classes these days, and I was a bit free as well. So I thought I would write something to you.
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, our traditional learning has been shifted to the online form where our school has managed to create a digital platform for students and teachers where we are engaged by asking questions playing quizzes and a lot more fun activities.
It’s our pleasure that our school has even introduced public speaking classes, where every week young entrepreneurs, speakers come to our class and share their experiences, ups and downs in their life and also teach us some life lessons. In the previous week, one of the co-founders of Infosys came into our class who exposed us to the universe of machines, robotics and IT. I had no clue how prominent was IT before that class. In that I class I learnt much about startup, entrepreneurship, business strategy, team management which was the most astonishing class I ever took.
We have somehow formed a group to do some projects related to technology. I would love to teach you about the same. Waiting for your experience. Keep posting me.
Yours affectionately,
Aaron
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