Empowerment #5: Embrace Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking is the judicious and objective analysis, exploration, and evaluation of an issue or a subject to form a viable and justifiable judgment.
Teaching my university students to embrace critical thinking is crucial for creating our future business and civic leaders. Likewise, it is also crucial for achieving digital transformation. Here is what I expect of my students with respect to mastering critical thinking:
- Never accept the initial answer as the right answer. It's too easy to take the initial result and think that it's good enough. But good enough is usually not good enough, and one needs to invest the time and effort to explore if there is a better "good enough" answer.
- Be skeptical. Never accept someone's "statement of opinion" as "fact." Learn to question what you read or hear. It's very easy to accept at face value whatever someone tells you, but that...