Welcome, %PCname. This is your first training lecture on Critical Thinking, Thought Process Awareness. I hope you feel excited with what we will be learning today. Thought Process Awareness will help you examine your own thinking. This skill is very important for a Critical Thinker. At the end of this training, you will know how your mind works. You will also learn how it affects the decisions and conclusions you make. I am sure that you’ll be able to use what you learn today, not only in your work but in your personal life as well. So, let’s start. Maybe there have been times when you look back on a decision you have made. Maybe you thought about the opinions that you have. How did you form them? What did you consider when you decided to …show more content…
Our brains can only process so much information at a time. These mental shortcuts and biases makes it easier for our brain to take in informationprocess information. However, when we use these shortcuts and biases, we increase our chance of making wrong decisions and conclusions. It will be helpful for you to know each of these. At the end of this training, you will be more aware of how you think. SoThus you can make better decisions and …show more content…
So if you think that by wearing your lucky shirt, you’ll get lucky, think again. Next, we have overconfidence. This is our tendency to overestimate our skills, knowledge, and judgment. In many instances, we think that we are right when we are not. We are overconfident because we fail to realize how little we know about things. Another reason is that information that we have comes from unreliable sources. Can you think of other situations in which you have been too confident about your own opinions, decisions, and judgment? Another bias that we have is Hindsight Bias. Hindsight Bias operates when people say “I knew it all along!” We do this when after an event has happened, we imagine instances that make us think that we already know it is going to happen. For example, your favorite boxer lost to his opponent in an important fight. After the match, you told your friend that you knew it was going to happen. This is Hindsight Bias. It occurs because we try to reinterpret events to suit our new version of reality. To illustrate, Original cognition: Boxer P will win because he is a great boxer. New cognition: Boxer P lost. He may not be that great at