Enhancing Yourself Through the Power of Critical Thinking Presentation

This presentation explores the power of critical thinking for self-enhancement. It defines critical thinking as a methodical process of intellectualizing, synthesizing, applying, evaluating, and assessing information. The presentation emphasizes the importance of critical thinking in various aspects of life, including creativity, knowledge acquisition, and the development of essential skills such as reasoning, problem-solving, evaluation, decision-making, and analyzing. It highlights how critical thinking promotes creativity by enabling individuals to see the world in new ways and generate innovative ideas. Furthermore, the presentation discusses how critical thinking facilitates the acquisition of new knowledge by providing flexible intellectual aptitudes to analyze information, understand contemporary issues, and solve modern problems. It also explains how critical thinking enhances communication and presentation skills by enabling systematic expression of thoughts and ideas. The presentation concludes by summarizing the benefits of critical thinking and its role in enhancing self-awareness, decision-making, and overall personal and professional growth, as well as how it can be used in various fields like law, management, finance, education, and research.

ENHANCING YOURSELF THROUGH
THE POWER OF CRITICAL THINKING
Group Members
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Presentation Purpose
 The primary purpose of this presentation is to explain how you can enhance yourself using the power of
critical thinking.
 It will show how critical thinking is significant in various aspects of life such as comprehending logical
connections between ideas, constructing and evaluating arguments, detecting common mistakes and
inconsistences in reasoning, solving problems, and justifying values and beliefs.
 This presentation will describe how a critical thinker can construe consequences from what he already
knows and use information to solve complex problems.
 It will also explain the usefulness of critical thinking in cooperative reasoning and how it can help an
individual gain knowledge, improve his/her theoretical views, and strengthen arguments.

Continuation
 This presentation will also explain how professionals in subject areas like law, management, finance,
education, and research can use critical thinking to enhance their skills and knowledge .
 You can develop your knowledge and awareness concerning pertinent issues and concepts such as
technology, global economy, society, business and so forth by use of critical thinking and in this
presentation you will learn how to do this.
 It will also explain how critical thinking can help a thinker to enhance his/her language, presentation skills,
and creativity.
 This presentation will also bring to your attention other skills that emanate from critical thinking such as
evaluating, problem solving, decision making, analyzing, and reasoning all which are very useful in self-
enhancement and growth.

Introduction of the Topic
 Critical thinking is a logically methodical process of enthusiastically and competently intellectualizing,
synthesizing, applying , evaluating, and assessing information generated through communication,
experience, observation, reasoning, and reflection (Kuhn, 2019).
 Critical thinking refers to the capability to reason intelligently and realistically concerning what to believe
or what to do. It includes the capacity of a person to take part in independent and reflective thinking.
 Through the power of critical thinking, you can easily enhance you life by for example, becoming a better
communicator, creative thinker, presenter, arguer, problem solver, negotiator, idea generator, and even
professional.
 The capability of a person to think rationally and clearly is essential in everything that they try to do or
achieve. Learners, for instance, should be critical thinkers for them to perform well in their academics
regardless of the field of study they are pursuing.
 Critical thinking is vital for self-reflection and in order to lead a meaningful life people must meditate and
thinking out about their lives.

Critical Thinking Promotes Creativity
 Creativity is simply the act of converting innovative and inventive ideas into reality. It is characterized by the
capability of a person to see the world in new ways, deduce relations between outwardly unconnected
phenomena, to figure out concealed patterns, and to come up with solutions (Perry-Smith, J& Mannucci, P.
V. (2017).
 Creativity involves turning something new into existence. Creativity requires commitment and passion. It
brings to our attention on what was earlier secreted or concealed and points to new ways of living. This
experience is one of intensified cognizance and ecstasy.
 In order to develop creative solutions to problems involves not simply having new ideas. It should as well
be the case that the innovative ideas being made are relevant and beneficial to the current problem. Critical
thinking plays an essential role in assessing newfangled ideas, choosing the best ones and modifying them
if the need be.
 In other words, critical thinking enables us to see things from different perspectives and turn news ideas
into being (Howard, Tang, & Austin, 2015).

Critical thinking is vital for self-reflection.
 For us to lead meaningful lives and accordingly, structure our lives properly, we must rationalize and reflect
on our decisions and values. Through the power of critical thinking, we are able to reflect on our lives fully
(Travers, Morisano, & Locke, 2015).
 Self-reflection enables us to build emotional self-awareness, reflect on our core values and beliefs, and
hence maximize our productivity or performance. It helps us to figure out inconsistences and mistakes in
our lives and how we can avoid them.
 When we take time to ask ourselves vital questions, we get to understand our driving factors, weaknesses,
emotions, and strengths better. Once we comprehend essential aspects of ourselves, we become better
able to become accustomed to varying circumstances and complex circumstances.
 With a perfect understanding of what beliefs and standards we consider most imperative places them at
the vanguard of our minds and strengthens our decisions making skills (Brownlee, LeBlanc, Halverson,
Piché, & Brazeau, 2019).

Critical thinking enables us to acquire new
knowledge
 Critical thinking enables us to deal with changes quickly and efficiently. This allows us to acquire new
knowledge about various aspects of the contemporary life. These include the global economy, social-
political issues, technology, and climate changes among others that affect our lives.
 Critical thinking is a domain-general thinking skill that provides us with flexible intellectual aptitudes and
abilities to analyze information. The skills and knowledge we acquire through critical thinking empowers us
to understand contemporary issues as well as the capacities needed to solve modern problems.
 The knowledge you acquire as a critical thinker helps you in enhancing your arguments and theoretical
opinions about the world we are living in. This means that critical thinking allows to become better arguers
and theoreticians and through this, we are fully empowered to deal with the most pressing challenges.
 As a skill, critical thinking curbs our natural tendencies to make baseless assumptions. It also reduces the
information we gather around into clear and precise source of knowledge (Paul, & Elder, 2019).

Critical thinking teaches people a variety of skills which are very applicable in any
life situation that calls for planning, analysis, and reflection.
Critical thinkers get a chance
to develop essential life skills
such as:
 Reasoning
 Problem solving
 Evaluation
 Decision making and
 Analyzing skills
All of which are very useful in
the process of self-
enhancement not just as
students but also as
professionals.

Conclusion
From this presentation we have learnt that critical thinking skill enables us to think clearly and rationally about
the world around us and what we need to do or believe. It enables us to comprehend the logical connections
between concepts, beliefs, and ideas concerning various issues that affect our lives in the contemporary
society. This is how critical thinking promotes creativity and help people generate ideas that are relevant and
applicable to solve numerous problems brought about by the tremendous changes taking place in the society.
Besides, this skill is very important in acquiring new knowledge and consciousness about things like global
economy, global social-political issues, global warming, pollution, climate changes just to mention a few that
affect the life of human kind in one or the other. It also sharpens our understanding of how these things
interrelate to shape our lives and attitude towards life. What is more, critical thinking is essential for self-
reflection and for us to live meaningful lives, we must contemplate upon ourselves, values, and decisions. In a
nutshell, critical thinking as a skill gives way to the development of other skills such as problem solving,
decision-making, evaluation, analyzing and reasoning all of which help in enhancing our lives.

References
Brownlee, K., LeBlanc, H., Halverson, G., Piché, T. and Brazeau, J., 2019. Exploring self-reflection in dual
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Howard, L.W., Tang, T.L.P. and Austin, M.J., 2015. Teaching critical thinking skills: Ability, motivation,
intervention, and the Pygmalion effect. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(1), pp.133-147.
Kuhn, D., 2019. Critical Thinking as Discourse. Human Development, 62(3), pp.146-164.
Paul, R. and Elder, L., 2019. A guide for educators to critical thinking competency standards: Standards,
principles, performance indicators, and outcomes with a critical thinking master rubric. Rowman
& Littlefield.
Perry-Smith, J.E. and Mannucci, P.V., 2017. From creativity to innovation: The social network drivers of
the four phases of the idea journey. Academy of Management Review, 42(1), pp.53-79.
Travers, C.J., Morisano, D. and Locke, E.A., 2015. Self reflection, growth goals, and academic outcomes:‐
A qualitative study. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 85(2), pp.224-241.

Questions and answers
Question: What is critical thinking?
Answer: Critical thinking refers to the capability to reason intelligently, rationally, clearly, and realistically
concerning what to believe or what to do.
Question: What are the five critical thinking skills?
Answer:
1. Reasoning
2. Problem solving
3. Evaluation
4. Decision making and
5. Analyzing skills
Question: How does critical thinking enhance our communication and presentation skills?
Answer: It enables us to systematically express ourselves, our thoughts and ideas. It also improves our
understanding capabilities.

Questions and answers
Question: How does critical thinking help in decision making?
Answer: It allows decision-makers to combine reasoning, intuition, and logic to come up with the best choice. It
enables the decision making process a little bit easier.
Question: What are the advantages of critical thinking?
Answer: It enables us to be:
 Self-corrective
 Self-monitored
 Self-driven
 Self-discipline and
 Self-directed