Exercise #4

Barriers summary

1. Misunderstanding of what is meant by criticism.

People think that criticism is something wrong but it is something positive, because criticism can bring many different solutions and it can tell you what are your mistakes in a positive way. For example when I was uploading my post in my blogger someone commented in my post what are the mistakes that I had.

2. Over-estimating our own reasoning abilities.

There are people who think they are in the right track but they aren’t. For example if you were searching about a journal in the Internet and someone comes to you and says it’s the wrong way to search because they think all books have the right information and because they started with this way so they think it’s the right way.

3.  Lack of methods, strategies or practice.

The people who said that these strategies and methods that we learned before isn’t beneficial are wrong because they have lack of critical thinking they don’t think about the future.

4. Reluctance to critique experts.

There are some people who critique less then the experts, because they think the expert are always more professional than themselves, also they think the experts never make any mistakes at all. Moreover, most people repeat the exact words used by expert.

5. Affective reasons.

There are people who think the emotional reasons can be more effective on the critical thinking. Furtheremore, emotional response can helps us to focus in our thinking and to think more clearly. For example, you can use nice words to criticism the people with a nice style of writing.

6. Mistaking information for understanding.

When you think critical harder that means you are in the right way because if you don’t feel any difficulty that means there is no development in your thinking skills.

7. Insufficient focus and attention to detail.

In the criticism you must have enough skills to be focused in the details and you should be more accurate about your criticism. Also you can think for good arguments to be more effective. For example when you read an article read it more than one time to have a good critical thinking.