"What's more important for a Senator?"
1. Commitment to Party 19%
2. Education history 0%
3. Prior work experience 5%
4. Critical Thinking 76%
Critical thinking was the overwhelming choice of respondents. Lucky for me that my whole professional engineering career has been developing my ability in this area for 20 years. Critical thinking is just something I do.
Critical Thinking requires skills in:
- Analysis – examining it in detail
- Thinking creatively – different perspectives and possibilities
- Problem solving – considering available information before making an appropriate decision
- Reasoning – making links between ideas and information
- Evaluating – assessing relevance and/or a context, and reliability
- Open-mindedness – examine multiple points of views, including your own
- Flexibility – ability to change your point of view
- Persistence – following a line of reasoning
- Interpersonal sensitivity – respect the opinions of others
- Intercultural sensitivity – respect diversity
