Critical Thinking, Procrastination, and Cognitive Bias
Student Name
Institutional Affiliation
Critical Thinking, Procrastination, and Cognitive Bias
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is a skillful and cautious approach to thinking through assessment and analysis of information to arrive at a given conclusion objectively. Critical thinking enables people to make appropriate claims, arguments, and opinions. The concept separates evidence and facts to form a rational and valid conclusion. With a junk of information flowing to people through cellular phones, televisions, advertisements, and the internet, people must be able to objectively digest such information so as to form conclusions or perceptions.
Procrastination
Procrastination is the act of avoiding, delaying, or postponing something for a later date. Notably, all of us have faced the challenge of procrastination. Figuring out how one has to stop procrastinating feels well. For instance, the idea of delaying an assignment to attempt in coming weeks involves procrastination
Cognitive Bias
Cognitive bias involves having distorted thought processes that negatively influence management or decision making. Optimism bias, groupthink bias, and anchoring bias are examples of cognitive bias. People with self-enhancement bias form unrealistic objectives or goals when making a work plan.
Application
Deciding to return to school after a long time is not an easy decision. As such, one needs to apply critical thinking. One has first to understand why returning to school if necessary. Secondly, one has to know the benefits of being in school on time. Such thoughts help one to be a critical thinker.
One’s Thoughts Have a Long Time of Exposure
When an individual is exposed to many experiences, reading materials, internet information, they tend to develop a clear understanding of a given phenomenon. As such, it can be concluded that individual thoughts change over time. Besides, critical thinking, which involves an educated way of taking in information, also grows simultaneously.