Dear A,
As for critical thinking shills there following ideas you can work on:
1. Don’t Take Anything at Face Value. Always ask what’s the problem? What are the possible solutions? What are the pros and cons of each?
2. Consider Motive. Just know that where any information comes from should affect how you evaluate it — and whether you decide to act on it.
3. Do Your Research and try to find some alternative views on the problem or situation to make your own point.
4. Ask Questions. If it's possible of course, but helps you clear your doubts and according to the reaction you can understand the situation better.
5. Don’t Assume You’re Right. Because if you don’t take in other perspectives and points of view, and think them over, and compare them to your own, you really aren’t doing much thinking at all — and certainly not the critical kind.
A for reading comprehension there are a lot of techniques and short courses on fast-reading, for example on udemy.com.
I can share with you some ideas, if there is some study or publication, you can read first very attentively an Executive Summary and Conclusion, and if you want to get some specific details on the research, you just jump to the specific chapter to go deeper.
Also, you can train yourself to read first sentence in every paragraph, that gives you overview of the whole paragraph itself. But trick in this reading, that your mind should be always tuned in, otherwise you just get bored, tired and lose your time.
So, my advice to you, you really want to go deeper in that to take some short course and practice and practice.
Best,
André
Dear A,
As for critical thinking shills there following ideas you can work on:
1. Don’t Take Anything at Face Value. Always ask what’s the problem? What are the possible solutions? What are the pros and cons of each?
2. Consider Motive. Just know that where any information comes from should affect how you evaluate it — and whether you decide to act on it.
3. Do Your Research and try to find some alternative views on the problem or situation to make your own point.
4. Ask Questions. If it's possible of course, but helps you clear your doubts and according to the reaction you can understand the situation better.
5. Don’t Assume You’re Right. Because if you don’t take in other perspectives and points of view, and think them over, and compare them to your own, you really aren’t doing much thinking at all — and certainly not the critical kind.
A for reading comprehension there are a lot of techniques and short courses on fast-reading, for example on udemy.com.
I can share with you some ideas, if there is some study or publication, you can read first very attentively an Executive Summary and Conclusion, and if you want to get some specific details on the research, you just jump to the specific chapter to go deeper.
Also, you can train yourself to read first sentence in every paragraph, that gives you overview of the whole paragraph itself. But trick in this reading, that your mind should be always tuned in, otherwise you just get bored, tired and lose your time.
So, my advice to you, you really want to go deeper in that to take some short course and practice and practice.
Best,
André