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
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- Comfortable with being wrong, willing to change his mind
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- Unable to accept being wrong, resists changing his mind
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- Asks many questions of himself and others
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- Makes statements about himself and others, but asks few good questions
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- Compares himself to others in order to improve himself
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- Compares himself to others in order to feel better about himself
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- Congenial toward those who he disagrees with
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- Bitter toward those he disagrees with
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- Continually re-examines his viewpoints
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- Dependent upon established viewpoints
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- A lifelong learner, he regularly takes in new information seeking new insights
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- A limited learner, he relies on past learnings and established insights
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- Reasons with both logic and emotion
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- Reacts with an extreme of either logic or emotion
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- Comments on both good and bad in what he examines
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- Focuses on the negative in what he examines
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- Pulls back from a problem to see the bigger picture
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- Fixates on smaller issues, missing the big picture
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Which kind of person do you tend to be?
What characteristics would you add to these lists?
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