Developing critical thinking means better knowing the limits of our own thinking.
Everyone perceives the world in which they live in their own way, through a filter made up of their own values, but also cognitive biases that influence their belief in the information perceived. Developing your critical mind means taking a step back with your own filters and building your opinion differently.
We are all victims of our cognitive biases.
A cognitive bias is a kind of information filter that causes our judgment to be impaired. Our decision will therefore by definition be distorted by our misleading and falsely logical beliefs.
If cognitive biases are useful for making a choice and making a decision quickly, when it comes to managing a large amount of important information, we can see a dysfunction in reasoning, as during the health crisis of covid-19. for example.
Develop critical thinking in the face of fake news
In a world where information circulates and floods our daily lives, our brain can only form an approximate and often false opinion. This is why fake news has never been so widespread, including the most irrational, because it responds to our intuition, our emotions and our sensitivity to risk.
Developing your critical mind therefore means starting by being wary of yourself by being aware of your limits and building your reasoning through constantly questioning your beliefs.
Find out more: “Well-made heads: Defense of critical thinking” by Nicolas Gauvrit.
