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Dec 8, - How should we think about thinking? Is even trying to do this akin to trying to open a box with a crowbar locked inside it? A widely-shared Aeon.
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• How metacognition, thinking about thinking, can help your life - Big Think
• Learning How to Think: The Skill No One Taught You
• Of course your brain processes information, but perhaps not the way you imagine.

The simplest thinking skills are learning facts and recall, while higher order skills include analysis, synthesis, problem solving, and evaluation. Thinking skills are cognitive operations or processes that are the building blocks of thinking. There are several core thinking skills including focusing, organizing, analyzing, evaluating and generating. Connecting — making connections between related items or pieces of information. Compiling — putting parts together to form a whole or building a structure or pattern from diverse elements.

Convergent or Analytical Thinking: Bringing facts and data together from various sourc es and then applying logic and knowledge to solve problems or to make informed decisions. Divergent thinking: Breaking a topic apart to explore its various components and then generating new ideas and solutions. Critical Thinking: Analysis and evaluation of information, beliefs, or knowledge.

Creative Thinking: Generation of new ideas breaking from established thoughts, theories, rules, and procedures.

Thinking about thinking is called Metacognition. It is a higher order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of your cognitive processes. It can involve planning, monitoring, assessing, and evaluating your use of your cognitive skills. In the simplest form, convergent thinking or deductive reasoning looks inward to find a solution, while divergent or creative thinking looks outward for a solution.

Both thinking skills are essential for school and life. Both require critical thinking skills to be effective. Both are used for solving problems, doing projects and achieving objectives. However, much of the thinking in formal education focuses on the convergent analytical thinking skills such as following or making a logical argument, eliminating the incorrect paths and then figuring out the single correct answer. Standardized tests such as IQ tests only measure convergent thinking.

Pattern recognition, logic thought flow, and the ability to solve problems with a single answer can all be tested and graded. Although it is an extremely valuable skill, there are no accurate tests able to measure divergent or creative thinking skills.

But the brain never actually stops "thinking" in a broader sense. Most thoughts are actually happening in the background without us being aware of them, and "there's not really a way to turn these things off," Halassa told Live Science. If you see a familiar face in a crowd and think you know them, you might not be able to come up with how you know them right away, Halassa said.

Of course your brain processes information, but perhaps not the way you imagine.

But maybe hours later, you'll suddenly remember. That's a result of your brain "thinking," in the background, he said. Even making decisions happens mostly unconsciously.

For example, some of this background "thinking" results in what we call a " gut feeling ," Halassa said. Kam agrees that how you define "thinking," changes the answer to the question. But if thinking means not focusing attention on anything in particular, "I think that would be a lot more difficult for the layperson. Even sitting here reading this, thinking about thinking is sending messages across a chain of neurons in the brain.

So if we somehow manage to stop ourselves from "thinking" consciously, or achieve a "blank state of mind" through meditation, the brain won't sign off. It will continue to have thoughts — we just won't be aware of them. Originally published on Live Science.

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