Improve Your Critical Thinking Skills
Like anything else in life in order to improve your critical thinking skills you have to think critically. Just like exercise or the lack thereof -- jogging everyday improves the efficiency of all the muscles in your body that are involved when you jog; likewise, not using those muscles causes them to deteriorate and become less efficient. So how do you exercise your critical thinking skills? That's what I'll explain below here.
Instructions
1. ~Read Books~
The benefits of reading are vast and incredible. Reading improves memory by requiring the reader to remember plot, event, setting, and character details. It improves creativity by requiring the reader to imagine many of the details for his or herself. It also increases your vocabulary and ability to focus. All of these things add up to making you into a more efficient thinker so go get a library card and dive in.
2. ~Solve Crosswords~
Crossword solving shares many of the benefits that reading does such as creativity, memory, and vocabulary. But it also causes the solver to think in a connective way forcing him or her to pave neurological in their brain that may not have existed prior to then. The result is a more efficient brain and improved critical thinking capacity. You can find crosswords in just about any printed newspaper available today as well as online and bought separately in crossword books.
3. ~Play Sudoku~
One of the most amazing feats of the human brain is its capacity to create systems for absorbing familiar types of information with ease. Sudoku is a purely logical, systematic exercise for the brain. It causes one to program their brain to recognize a massive array of possibilities with the numbers 1-9 in a 9x9 little square -- this game can really flex your pure cold intellect. Like crosswords, Sudoku can be found in most printed newspapers available today as well as online and bought separately in Sudoku books.
4. ~Play Strategy Games~
More specifically, strategy games involving two or more players. This way the players must attempt to think like their opponent(s) through reaction and adaptation in order to win. Many strategy games work for this effect but strategy board games like Chess and Risk seem to stand out the best.
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