Saturday, January 24, 2026

Critical Situation

I've been both kinds of people:







































CRITICAL THINKER

CRITICAL PERSON

  • Sets aside his opinion in order to examine other points of view
  • Sees things only from his perspective
  • Comfortable with being wrong, willing to change his mind
  • Unable to accept being wrong, resists changing his mind
  • Asks many questions of himself and others
  • Makes statements about himself and others, but asks few good questions
  • Compares himself to others in order to improve himself
  • Compares himself to others in order to feel better about himself
  • Congenial toward those who he disagrees with
  • Bitter toward those he disagrees with
  • Continually re-examines his viewpoints
  • Dependent upon established viewpoints
  • A lifelong learner, he regularly takes in new information seeking new insights
  • A limited learner, he relies on past learnings and established insights
  • Reasons with both logic and emotion
  • Reacts with an extreme of either logic or emotion
  • Comments on both good and bad in what he examines
  • Focuses on the negative in what he examines
  • Pulls back from a problem to see the bigger picture
  • Fixates on smaller issues, missing the big picture

Which kind of person do you tend to be?

What characteristics would you add to these lists?

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