1. Chapter 2 BECOMING A CRITIC OF YOUR THINKING
ASSE Section 202
Farah Al-Sharif
Ghada Odeh
Omniah Al-Mattar

2. OUTLINE: Introduction How skilled is your thinking (Right Now)?
Good thinking is as easy as bad thinking.
The Hard Cruel World
Become a Critic Of Your Own Thinking
Conclusion

3. What’s your first impression?
 What can you make of it?
What’s your first impression?

4. HOW SKILLED IS YOUR THINKING (RIGHT NOW)?
What is critical thinking?
The disciplined art of ensuring that you use the best thinking you are capable of in any set of circumstances
The general goal of thinking We always need the best information to make the best choices

5. Critical thinking steps

6. HOW SKILLED IS YOUR THINKING (RIGHT NOW)? (continued)
What is really going on in this situation?
Are they trying to take advantage of me?
How can I be more successful in doing so and so?
Responding to such questions successfully is the daily work of thinking. That’s why we are THINKERS.

7. HOW SKILLED IS YOUR THINKING (RIGHT NOW)? (continued)
How to maximize the quality of your thinking?
You must learn how to become an effective “critic” of your own thinking!
To become an effective critic of your thinking, you have to make learning about thinking a priority.
However, serious study of thinking is rare, why??
Because It is not a subject in most of schools. It is not a subject taught at home.

8. HOW SKILLED IS YOUR THINKING (RIGHT NOW)? (continued)
Some of the things you will eventually discover:
everything you do ,want, or feel is influenced by your thinking!!!
All of us have picked up bad habits of thinking.
For instance, we make generalization when we don’t have the evidence to back them up.

9. HOW SKILLED IS YOUR THINKING (RIGHT NOW)? (continued)
Every major insight you gain into good or bad thinking can significantly enhance your life;
you can begin to make higher quality decisions
You can gain very important power
You can open up new doors for yourself
minimize significant mistakes and maximize potential understandings.

10. The last leaf A Truly Inspirational Story positive thinking and attitude
The Last Leaf” is a story about getting away from negative thinking to life changing scenario. The positive believe system force someone whose illness changed.

11. Manage Your Self-Talk This is going to be a wonderful day!
If you think you Can, or you think you Can’t…
YOU’RE RIGHT!
This is going to be a wonderful day!
This is going to be a crappy day!
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12. To Develop positive thinking
Change
3 Things!

13. Negative self-talk Positive spin I've never done it before
It's an opportunity to learn something new
It's too complicated
I'll tackle it from a different angle
I don't have the resources
Necessity is the mother of invention.
There's no enough time
Let's re-evaluate some priorities
There's no way it will work
I can try to make it work.
No one bothers to communicate with me
I'll see if I can open the channels of communication.

14. Some common forms of negative and irrational self-talk include
filtering. You magnify the negative aspects of a situation and filter out all of the positive ones
Personalizing. When something bad occurs, you automatically blame yourself.
Catastrophizing. You automatically anticipate the worst.
Polarizing. You see things only as either good or bad, black or white.

15. INFLUENCE YOUR ENVIRONMENT!
Add POSITIVE Behavior
Replace the BAD HABITS!
Spread a SMILE around
Sprinkle some “positive” on the negatives
Focus on the good of each day
Stay out of the “feeding frenzies”
Say “please” and “thank you”
Practice EMPATHY
Evaluate YOUR behavior
Never miss an opportunity to complement
BEHAVIOR

16. REMEMBER! You owe it to yourself so react positively!
You owe it to yourself so work safely!
You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to avoid injuries!

17. Become a Critic of Your Own Thinking
Why you have to becoming a critic of your thinking?
To improve yourself
To begin to practice the art of skilled thinking and lifelong learning

18. How to do this? 1-Discover your thinking. 2-See its structure.
3-Observe its implications.
4-Recognize its basis and vantage point.

19. How You can make foundational changes in your thinking?
bad habits of thought?
what you are striving for?
Recognize + Learn to think better

20. conclusion
Critical thinking is an important component of most professions. It is a part of the education process and is increasingly significant as students progress through university to graduate education

21. Thank you for listening
Any questions ..