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Critical thinking is an important intellectual and social skill that allows for personal growth. It involves developing strategies in an efficient manner both intellectually and emotionally. Reasoning is an intellectual process that allows arguments to be formed and connected to reach conclusions, but arguments can be influenced by experience and knowledge. Critical thinking is more important than reasoning because it allows us to avoid cognitive biases and keep an open mind to seek truth and solve problems. Developing critical thinking requires constantly questioning beliefs and justifications rather than being mentally lazy. Parenting plays a fundamental role in the beliefs formed early in life that can then be strengthened by evidence and used to think critically about life.

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Critical thinking is an important intellectual and social skill that allows for personal growth. It involves developing strategies in an efficient manner both intellectually and emotionally. Reasoning is an intellectual process that allows arguments to be formed and connected to reach conclusions, but arguments can be influenced by experience and knowledge. Critical thinking is more important than reasoning because it allows us to avoid cognitive biases and keep an open mind to seek truth and solve problems. Developing critical thinking requires constantly questioning beliefs and justifications rather than being mentally lazy. Parenting plays a fundamental role in the beliefs formed early in life that can then be strengthened by evidence and used to think critically about life.

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Kenya Lattin

Week 2 Assignment
Journal
July  17, 2022
Critical thinking is both an intellectual and social skill of enormous importance in

personal growth. The importance of thinking critically stems from the ability to develop

strategies in an efficient and coordinated manner, both intellectually and emotionally.

On the other hand, reasoning, in its various forms, is an intellectual and logical process

that allows the development of arguments that, when connected, can reach a conclusion.

The difference between the two is perceptible when it is recognized that the formation

of arguments differs greatly in people and that they can be influenced by the level of

experience, knowledge and other personal factors. However, the critical order of

everything that is called information can disarm arguments that have been validated by

reasoning and effectively discern. For this reason, the critical thinker does not seek to be

right, but to find the reasons why something is wrong and, therefore, must be corrected.

So I consider that critical thinking is more important than reasoning, since it allows us

to avoid the cognitive biases that can exist in most messages. Likewise, thinking

critically is the potential connection of experience and knowledge to keep an open mind

and thus seek the truth, solve problems and interact effectively in the social

environment.

Thinking critically is an important skill to develop, and you don't have to be mentally

lazy to do so. You always have to ask yourself the why of things. One of these is “Why

do you believe what you believe?”. Personally, I believe what I believe because I have a

foundation from my upbringing that has allowed me to acquire a set of values and

beliefs, in addition to others that I have acquired at various stages of my life as an adult.

So I think of parenting as the fundamental axis of what we believe to what we will add

later as the evidence that justifies our way of thinking and reasoning in every aspect of

life. For example, believing that "giving is better than receiving" is a foundation of

humility as a value that was instilled in me since I was a child, which allows me to
strengthen my vocation for service in healthcare. Likewise, I also believe that there is a

relationship between health and well-being along with order and cleanliness. This belief

leads me to cleanliness as a value that I also received as a value since I was a child and

that has somehow influenced my professional performance, because I believe that where

there is cleanliness there are greater possibilities of having health and well-being. And

the other answer that explains why is simply that in my family there is a lot of health, it

is strange that one of my brothers is sick beyond a simple flu; so I consider these values

of enormous importance that must be transmitted to other family members and of

course, to patients.

In conclusion, thinking critically professionally will provide the best experience and

probity of the knowledge acquired. And although this does not imply that reasoning

should be left aside, we must critically validate the information we perceive.

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