Critical Thinking

What exactly critical thinking all about??

I believe, its just understanding how we think, and what we think. What makes us to think?

What are the ways we can be productive in thinking, which leads to great objectives.

Then I has started reading books about critical thinking. I have felt, everyone thinks differently. But, It’s also obvious that, No one can be critic of one's thinking...

Ex: long time back, we have killed a person who is said, world is not flat but its round. i.e. no one can say, one's thinking is right or wrong..

And its also obvious that, once thinking defiantly depends up on variables like, genes, information they have encountered from childhood (Like What they seen and experienced), and mimetic ideas induced. Which all together highly complex, which leads to infinite number of outcomes, thus makes every person thinking unique.

Coming back to point, No one can be critic of one's thinking. Thus one should be critic of his own thinking, I know it’s hard to admit but, its possible. I believe, if one wants to be critical thinker, he should think about his thinking all the time.

Question I ask myself about my thinking

Why I am taking this as granted?

Why I am assuming this?

Who told me this, is he perfect?

Why it feels good for me?

What's making me think about it?

Why I have to think this way?

Are my opinions are biased by hormones or emotions?

Am I making up solution or assumption to get away with question or self-satisfaction?

Lot of questions goes on! One might ask, Do you get anywhere with so many questions just before a thought. My answer is yes, that art lies between choosing right question at right moment.

Let me phrase couple examples happened in personal life

Ex 1) After long time, I went back to home country India for a vacation, we sat for lunch, my offered me chicken curry, after first bite of it, I felt wow, what a wonderful, I can never find anything tastes better than this. There are two possible explanations for this

A) Using standard line, nothing is greater than mom's food, or something defiantly some kind of emotional explanation. (FYI I love my mom more than anything else in the world :) )

B) When a person take's birth, his taste buds starts a zero level, when a child hormones starts growing his taste buds records standard level of taste, probably at that time I might had this food over and over again. (Again one can argue over it saying it also depends what you used to have etc etc but, that no use)

Ultimately answer B right, but I ended with that explanation because I asked myself, why do I like this? After next second I felt it’s wonderful.

Ex 2) (It is quiet embarrassing thing LoL) Yesterday night all of sudden I felt h*****, then next second I asked myself, Why I feel this?

Logical answer is, I am alone at my place, feeling deep sense of loneliness and absence any active thinking. Which lead my hormone take over thinking. Next second I thought what's most interesting concept I always want to think about or learn about, I figured its "Morality Vs Religion" spend rest of night learning about it,

Thus I have overcome hormones desire.

Summarizing the event, I guess I did a different thing by changing my attention towards learning something instead of thinking something I want. It concludes, its critical thinking to think what we are thinking all the time, and question why we are thinking.

By questioning one self, one can choose what exactly one wants to think and they can answer them self’s what is right and what is wrong. And it also concludes that thinking power of brain can overcome hormone desires.

I have interesting tool its called "Google Search history" where Google saves all of your searches made (one has to login to Google account) It kind of creates log of your searches what you did as shown in picture, Morning I worked something on Google docs, later checked my flight ticket, then checked my flight and baggage, aircraft, etc, etc Thus its creates a log of hunt for knowledge I did on Google.. Just check your search history, if you have one, you will amazed to see what you have thinking or working :)