Critical thinking

 

Critical thinking

Critical thinking refers to the ability to analyze, contrast, and reflect on the different information we receive from the media. We can understand it and determine whether it is true or not through a system of questions and confirmations with other documentary sources. These serve as tools to sharpen our senses and avoid falling into deceptions, such as those well-known in the advertising industry, or how today's hoaxes on social media by artificial intelligence that impersonate images and voices.

However, to develop this skill, we need to practice reading, gathering information from reliable sources, hopefully from primary sources, from the same reality, verifiable in the field.

Enlist the support of authorities or portals like Colombian Check that allow us to verify fake images and news.

 

Another important premise is to listen to our own sense of purpose, to know that sometimes we feel something isn't right, to doubt is important, and to carry that doubt until it is disproved.

 

Consider biases, both our own and those of others. We all have biases, and it is important to identify them. It's important to explore authors like Chomsky, Kant, Socrates, and Descartes, who, through doubt and its power to illuminate the reality of discourse, or through clearing away the weeds of ideas. Reading always gives us tools to unravel the truth. I recommend The Manual for Critical Thinking by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.