The Five Steps Of Critical Thinking In Everyday Life

Critical thinking is an act that everyone should use in their daily lives; in its most basic form it is simply just asking, why, to every aspect of a new topic that is being discussed. However, those simply “why” questions can be broken down into five steps that everyone should practice when an unfamiliar topic is presented to them as truth. The first step is asking yourself if the information given to you has a clear set of terms; meaning that is the purpose of the topic understandable and not confusing and vague. The best example of this in my everyday life would be: when I am on a social media website and I see a post or article with the title that product “x”, “can change my life”, if I change my diet or start taking a different supplement.

In the example I might have used a different product in the past because of an article claiming great results, and had terrible results; because of this I need to make sure I analyze this new article without letting my past experiences effect my decision making. Next, I would avoid emotional reasoning when using critical thinking to examine this hypothetical product, and I would come to the conclusion that: all of the testimony given have a back story of why the person needed this, and how it dramatically changed their life for the better. Whiteout using this fourth critical thinking step those example stories could help persuade me to connect on an emotional level, instead of looking at the evidence objectively. Finally, considering other interpretations is the last critical thinking step to take when looking at new evidence. Using the same example, a critical thinker needs to look at that I wonder why other options where not given, as well as why was this the only product that can “change my life”. In the example the person providing the article might be the maker of product “x”, and that is why they are only giving the one, cure all, option. There are more critical thinking steps you can take, but these are the five I will be using when reading my article and looking at it from a

Rainier?”. I do not have an interest in Bigfoot, but an episode of How I Met Your Mother was on television and a character on the show was describing why he believed in Bigfoot as I was scrolling through the titles and saw this article. It was written by Joe Nickell in the September/October 2014 issue of Skeptical Inquirer. The purpose of his article was to analyze the past reports of a bigfoot sighting in the area surrounding Mount Rainier in the state of Washington. Nickell also went out to the area to see if he could record a sighting as well. In his telling of the past sightings of Bigfoot, he objectively looks at the sightings, and retells them without bias. He then proceeds to give us a short account of his own trip, in the attempt to see Bigfoot. He was led by guide Diann Sheldon during his trip around the area of Mount Reiner, and she took him to the sites reported with the most Bigfoot sightings. Nickell interviewed multiple park rangers and volunteers, and choose to tell us what a volunteer named Hollinger had seen. Hollinger had stated that during the previous summer she had seen a bear stand on it’s hind legs, and she understood how some people might mistake a bear for Bigfoot. In the next section of the article Nickell gave a recount of the most “notrious” evidence of Bigfoot, the Wild Creek Photos. The photos were taken by an unidentified park rangers, and assume to have been manipulated with a