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Tools for Improving Your Critical Thinking - Stories off Email Postings to Test Your Critical Thinking

Assumptions

Content:

• Introduction to Assumptions
• Assumptions 1
  • Invalid Assumptions
  • Jumping to Assumptions
• Assumptions 2
  • Assumptions About What is Important
  • Clear up Assumptions Prior to Making Agreements
  • Beware of the "Taking Things for Granted" Assumption

Introduction to Assumptions

We can really get messed up in our problem solving and critical thinking if we continue to proceed in our actions based on invalid assumptions. We must always validate and test our assumptions to be sure that our assumptions are based in reality. We must always avoid jumping to assumptions especially if they are negative or illogical. We need to never ignore the obvious and recognize that by taking things for granted one can fall into the biggest trap of invalidated assumptions. Critical Thinking is very dependent on the open assessing, validating, and clarifying of assumptions. Assumptions lie at the root and foundation of what make critical thinking different from other forms of thinking and problem solving. So pay attention and heed the lessons to be learned in dealing with assumptions. 

To assist you to navigate these Stories to Improve Your Critical Thinking just click onto the next topic you want to go to:

• Introduction to these Stories
• Perceptions
• Assumptions
  • Assumptions 1
  • Assumptions 2
• Metaphors
  • Metaphor 1
  • Metaphor 2

• Language

  • Language 1

  • Language 2

• Logic

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