- Creative and critical thinking enhances time management.
Creative and critical thinking enhances time management, which in result makes a university student successful. Time is something you lose and never get back. Creative thinking helps a student conquer this by enabling them to set goals and then work on them. Critical thinking enables the university student to determine whether the goal is important to them, why they are undertaking it and how to undertake it. Critical thinking enables university students to avoid procrastination whereas creative thinking supports this by giving the university student ideas on how not to procrastinate, for example by starting with the activities; they dislike most or important work. By prioritizing the student saves a lot of time and gives them a lot of extra time to do other activities and not just doing them but doing them in the right way and exhaustively. If important things are not done first chances of not doing them on time or not doing them at all are high.
In addition, becoming a creative and critical thinker towards time can be truly interesting since a university student can end up learning a lot about themselves in detail. A good recommendation for this is by having a notebook where you track all your main activities of the day by recording the time spent doing them, every detail put into record is significant since it will help to know how long you took to achieve a certain goal.
Critical thinking encourages organization to university students as a result of time management. The students will tend to organize their ideas before implementing them, for example planning on how to start revising for the end of semester examination, they may decide to be revise after every lecture and this is will be influenced by creative thinking. Creative thinking enables the students to provide simple yet effective workflow method.
Critical and creative thinking enhance a university student’s life for they make a ware to the students the importance of spending time wisely and scheduling among others. It also helps them understand and apply proper time management techniques that will help them both academically and in their day-to-day lives. The above is evidence that creative and critical thinking are very important aspects in a university student’s life.
2) Critical Thinking enhances a student’s language presentation and skills.
Critical thinking skills can enhance our presentation and help us to express ourselves better. When we are able to make better predictions about the audience, to arrange our thoughts in a rational and systematic way, to use language in interesting ways, and to become better listeners with discerning minds; we will naturally become better speakers.
With critical thinking skills, we can determine what pieces of information are important and dispose of the data that is not so useful. We can weigh points of view and facts and discover logical errors. All this is vital in the problem-solving process.
Thinking clearly and systematically can improve the way we express our ideas. In learning how to analyze the logical structure of texts, critical thinking also improves comprehension abilities.
Today one of the most important criteria for success in College is the ability to think independently while being logical at the same time. Often students are asked to present papers either on their subject matter or in liberal arts. Knowledge of critical thinking skills enables students to not only outline their papers coherently with a logical structure, it also helps them reason and present their thoughts in an organized and persuasive manner. Critical Thinking Ensures Your Opinions Are Well-Informed whereby we have access to more information than ever before. Astoundingly, more data has been created in the past two years than in the entire previous history of humankind. Critical thinking can help you sort through the noise as Employing critical thinking makes you more open-minded and better able to understand others’ points of view
3) Critical and creative thinking enhances teamwork.
Critical thinking skills are very crucial for a group of people to work together. When members of a group have different vital and creative abilities, the results of their work are always great. Critical and creative thinking enables team members to ask essential questions and point out interesting facts as they can look at things from all angles. Asking questions allows them to identify solutions to problems and the possible consequences of each action taken. Effective communication also results from the presence of critical thinkers, that is, when members ask questions, it gives each and everyone a chance to share their thoughts.
The interaction of team members also contributes to personal development as the team members can learn from each other as they exchange experiences. Each team member can view things in other people’s perspectives with an open mind and evaluate situations without letting emotions get in the way. Viewing items from one’s perspective allows a person to investigate the issue objectively.
4)Critical thinking enhances a student’s academic performance.
Critical thinking skills provide the groundwork for writing high-quality academic papers. Critical thinking skills not only dissect and display the various roots within writing; they justify it and raise its value and soul to the surface. Critical thinking skills help students pass exams and tests. This is because students to look for context clues and have the ability to decipher word elements and select a way to a respectable passing grade will use critical thinking skills. Lastly, some degree programs require their students to defend their thesis. Students use critical thinking to anticipate questions a panel can ask and thus have the right answers to excel.
5) Critical thinking enhances a student’s self-reflection
If students are encouraged from the early stages, to become more critically reflective on what they learn and, in particular, how their learning habits need to be altered to fit the new academic environment, they may be able to move more easily from one learning style to another. Students can use critical thinking to decide which type of friends to interact with. This according to the values they portray and their preferences, their character. This will determine his or her life in the university. Self-reflection will determine a student’s strengths and weaknesses the opportunities in the university
6) Critical thinking promotes creativity
Critical thinking is the ability to invent or create something new: be that a concept, a solution, a method, a work of the art, or an actual device. Critical thinking is based on looking at things in a new way that has not previously been considered .That is why it is considered as ‘thinking outside the box’. It can be stimulated both by an unstructured process such as brainstorming and by a structured process as lateral thinking. Creative thinkers are able to look at things in a new , unorthodox ways and come up with solutions no one previously thought of. To come up with a creative solution to a problem as a student involves not just having new ideas. It must also be the case that the new ideas being generated are useful and relevant to the task. Critical thinking plays a crucial role in evaluating new ideas, selecting them if necessary .As a student when I get creative about my studies, I will perform well. On the face of it, “creativity “seems like a skill useful only to artists, designers, writers, or even marketers but the truth is that we as student we need it. In addition, creativity is what drives innovation and progress
7) Critical thinking enhances independent thinking thus helps one curb peer- pressure.
Peer pressure is when a student is influenced by fellow peers to do something most of the time not good. You will see teens taking alcohol, disrespecting elders, missing classes and forgetting what they are supposed to doing in school-a result of peer pressure. Example is drinking alcohol in a party. Some of tactics to deal with peer pressure include; learn to be assertive, ask for help if necessary, get out of the situation, choose friends wisely and spend time with those who resist peer pressure. Critical thinking will help a student to know when he is right hence, he or she is less likely to fall for swindles or tricks because they approach everything with a healthy amount of skepticism. Those who lack critical thinking skills often assume that everything they are told is true regardless of the source .As a student, I need to be an independent thinker to avoid falling for peer pressure and resist it. As a critical thinker, I will say no to friends who want to mislead me
8) Critical thinking reinforces a student’s problem-solving skills.
The quote by Jean De La Bruyere: “Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think,” may seem a bit radical, however, according to the premise of a student’s life, what you think is what you feel.
While many people believe that your feelings precede, or are independent of your thoughts, the truth is that your feelings are products of your thoughts.
This revelation can be both daunting and liberating.
Daunting because it makes us responsible for our attitudes and liberating because we have the power to choose our perspective, mood and thoughts.
When we are aware that we can choose and direct our thinking, we realize that we have the ability to better control the circumstances of our lives, improve our decision-making processes and generally live more productive lives as students.
This in no way suggests that students need downplay the many feelings and emotions we as humans enjoy, it’s a simply a way for us to manage and balance them with our cognitive abilities.
We are thinking critically and, in a problem, solving mindset when we:Rely on reason rather than emotion ,Evaluate a broad range of viewpoints and perspectives ,Maintain an open minded to alternative interpretations, Accept new evidence, explanations and findings, Are willing to reassess information, Can put aside personal prejudices and biases, Consider all reasonable possibilities, Avoid hasty judgments.
Critical and creative thinking equips students with the logical ability of selecting the best choice during a problem-solving action. More importantly broadens one’s rationality and ability to reason.
9) Critical and creative thinking is key to a student’s career success.
Critical thinking can help a student in any profession where the student must analyze information, systematically solve problems, generate innovative solutions, plan strategically, think creatively, or present your work or ideas to others in a way that can be readily understood.
For example, a business student on internship’s job is to evaluate data and make informed decisions regarding a company’s performance. Careful critical thinking can uncover innovative solutions to address issues that come up and to boost business growth in the future.
In what ways has critical thinking has helped you in your life? Let us know in the comments section . have a fruitful day ,wont you!!