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We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day. Search Learning Lab Search. Why think critically? Importance of critical thinking Critical thinking is necessary for every aspect of your study: reading listening note-making writing presentations professional practice At university in Australia, lecturers expect you to do more than just describe a theory or concept in your assessment tasks.

To help with your critical thinking, here are some comments to reflect on: You need to be more critical. You limit your own potential because you think small and you play it small. And thinking big is the doorway to unleashing your full potential. It all starts with your thinking. When you think big, big things will come into your life. Have you ever asked yourself, why do you want to think small and play small when you can think big and be big?

Most people have the wrong perception to believe that thinking big is bad, thinking big is difficult, or thinking big requires more work, which are false perceptions.

You see, it takes the same energy to think big and to think small. Thinking big is just a mentality. And in order to achieve big things, you will have to do things differently. If you look at extraordinary people who have achieved amazing success in life, they are just like you and me, a normal person.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, you, and I have 24 hours a day. And because there are only 24 hours a day, there is no way we can put in more hours of work to produce more results. Do you get it? It is not about the time you put in, it is not about the effort, and it is not about your education.

It is about your thinking. It is your mentality that will shape the way you make decisions and the way you do things. As I mentioned above, a lot of people have the wrong perception and believe thinking big requires a big effort, which is not. When you think big, you will find the right answer to achieve your big goals. Similarly, when you think small, you will come up with a plan to achieve the small goals.

You now know why you want to think big and why it is important to do so. Sometimes the purely instinctual responses we share with other animals put explicit reasoning to shame: the movements of a trained athlete are faster and more accurate than anything she could explicitly calculate.

Language, however, with its power to abstract from concrete experience and to range over all aspects of nature, enables breathtakingly precise calculations, which have taken us to the moon and beyond. Most importantly, however, language enables us to formulate an endless multiplicity of values, in potential conflict with one another as well as with instinctual imperatives. This book shows how our rationality and our irrationality are inextricably intertwined.

It explores the true ramifications of being human in the natural world. Keywords: natural selection , rational thinking , nature , rational action , language , instinct , experience , irrationality. Forgot password? Don't have an account? All Rights Reserved.

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