Critical and Creative Thinking in Life: "Managing Organization Change"

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“Managing Organization Change”

Customized AIT Training Program


For the National Family Planning
Coordinating Board of Indonesia

The Mirror of the Economic World

Critical And Creative Thinking


In Life
A session with
Dr. Prof. B.K. Passi
Prasena Think Tank
12 December 2002
Emerging goals of life

Full development of human potentials


through critical and creative thinking
Do you agree?
Are critical and creative thinking act as our
goals or means?
Why are critical and creative thinking gaining
importance these days?
Critical and creative thinking are primary
types
Approaches: Conventional-Creative-Critical

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How powerful are brain and
mind?
Brain and the Universe

1. Brain has 10 billion nerve cells

2. Total Atoms in the Universe=1 0000000000, 0000000000, 0000000000, 0000000000,


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3. Possible Inter-Connections in the brain=1 0000000000, 0000000000, 0000000000,


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4. Brain cell inter-connections more than the total universe- atoms?


5. We are using 10 % of our brains
6. Brain is a self expanding and self organizing entity
Left Brain & Right Brain

FACTS IDEAS

VERBAL SPATIAL

STRUCTURED OPEN-ENDED

SEQUENCE RELATIONSHIPS

OUTLINE INTUITIVE

LOGICAL SUMMARY

Human Information Processing --


HIPS
Systems: 99% of human potential is lost

1. nurture-loss is
90% of total available
potential

Third management loss is 66% 2. Selection loss is 70%

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Mind another view (Dr. Jumsai)

Super-conscious
Intuition

Five senses Sixth sense Love


Conscious

Emotions
Environment Unconscious
Critical-Creative & Multiple Intelligences

CRITICAL

Musical Naturalistic
Linguistic
Body
Existential Spatial
Kinesthetic
Interpersonal Logical
Intrapersonal
Mathematical

CREATIVE
Multiple intelligence three categories

1. Object-related forms of intelligence: subject to the kind of control exerted by


the structure and functions of the particular objects with which individuals
come into contact.
• Spatial Intelligence- Picasso
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence- Einstein
• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence- Charlie Chaplin

2. Object-free forms of intelligence: not fashioned or channeled by the physical


world but, instead, reflect the structures of particular languages and music.
• Linguistic Intelligence- Tagore
• Musical Intelligence- Beethoven

3. Personal forms of intelligence: reflect a set of powerful and competing


constraints - the existence of one's own person; the existence of other
persons; the culture's presentations and interpretations of selves.
• Intrapersonal Intelligence- Freud
• Interpersonal Intelligence- Gandhi
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical Thinking

...a conscious and deliberate process


which is used to interpret or evaluate
information and experiences with a
set of reflective attitudes and abilities
that guide thoughtful beliefs and
actions

Mertes, L. (1991). Thinking and writing. Middle School Journal, 22, 24-25.
Critical Thinking

...the intellectually disciplined process of


actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying,
analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information gathered from, or generated by,
observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or
communication, as a guide to belief and action*

*Scriven, M., & Paul, R. (1992, Critical Thinking Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Critical Thinking – A Cyclic Process

Critical thinking is purposeful, self-regulatory


judgment which results in interpretation, analysis,
evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation
of the evidential, conceptual, methodological,
criteriological, or contextual considerations upon
which that judgment is based.
Critical thinking process-

Interpretation
Analysis
Process Evaluation
Purposeful
Inference

Judgment Evidential
Contextual
Self regulatory Considerations
Conceptualization

Methodological
inquisitiveness

Cognitive- Open
maturity mindedness

Thinker
Truth- Critical Systematic
seeking-
ability
attitude

Self-
Analyticity
confidence
Creative Thinking
Is Creativity?

?
1. Mysterious to understand
2. Unlimited in scope
3. Meant for all historical times
4. Lies in every activity
5. Possessed by all
6. Luxury of advanced nations
7. Can it be developable?
Myths about the process of developing
creativity

1. Creativity is natural gift – it cannot be taught


2. Creativity is in rebels
3. Creativity lies in right-brain
4. Art, artists only has creativity
5. Releasing blocks will bring creativity
6. Intuition alone helps creativity
7. Needs craziness for creativity
8. Scatter-gun success for creativity
9. Big-jump and small-jump creativity
10. Group or Individual which one is useful
11. Intelligence and creativity are same
Passi: definition of creativity

 Creative thinking is an action of mind that purposefully


manipulates the environment for creating new ideas and
establish novel patterns and relationships.

 Creativity is a multi-facet and multi-dimensional attribute


differentially distributed among people and includes
chiefly factors of ‘seeing problems, fluency, flexibility,
originality, elaboration’, and includes the passion of
inquisitiveness and persistency.
Seeing
Problems
Inquisitiveness Fluency

Creativity
Persistence Flexibility

Elaboration Originality
Creativity is walking alone

1= Man who follows the crowd, will usually get no further than
the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in
places no one has ever been before.

2= Creativity in living is not without its attendant difficulties, for


peculiarity breeds contempt. And the unfortunate thing about
being ahead of your time is that when people finally realize you
were right, they’ll say it was obvious all along.

3= You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the
mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be
different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else
IS, but you can be...
+ive & -ive Environments
Seven Environments
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1.Calm 5.Cautious
4.Releasing

2.Blocking
3.Oppression
Creativity-blocks: which one(s) we suffer
most
ENVIRONMENTAL-
NON-SUPPORTIVE

CULTURAL-
OPPRESSIVE

EMOTIONAL-
IRRATIONAL

LAW OF REGRESSIVE
INTELLECTUAL
- The nicely-adapted organisms are
L-R BRAIN least likely to survive in major
change

PERPETUAL

- SENSES
1= While tackling old problems

11= When logical thinking fails 2=During free time after problems

10= To escape from traditions 3= When pay off of new ideas is large

When To Use Creativity?

9= To dissolve artificial problems 4= Routine reexamination of assumptions

8= To find new opportunities 5= Generating alternative decisions

7= Inferring new utility of data 6= Inferring new utility of data


Approaches:
to develop thinking ?
2= By-product approach
1=Natural approach

Approaches: Teaching Thinking

3= Logic approach
5= Puzzles and games approach

4= Discussion approach

Direct approach
Can we link these approaches to
disciplines?
Can meditation and yoga help us

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