Research Related to Student’s Self-development and Importance of Critical Thinking

Bruce Lee once said that learning is never cumulative; it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. The more it is known, the better it becomes. A person who enters in a new environment is always keen to know about the present surroundings. This cooperation with the surroundings lead to an impactful learning environment that enhances one socially. A new place or a new work environment always build up skills that are critical and effective. Enrollment in a new field or an educational program always pops new questions in a person’s mind. Will he be able to catch up with other students in such a new environment or not. What type of skills and steps one must take so that the person can survive? A new surrounding is seen as an unbeatable war. To be victorious in this war, one adapts to battlefield rules by cooperating with these new styles and patterns.

The new study modes push a person to create those specific patterns and ways that are necessary to apply these in their respective fields. This cooperation opens numerous gates for the celebrating the diversity of exploration with his surroundings. It is not necessary for a person to be a fast and intelligent learner for survival. Slow but attentive minds can also learn through the experiences by constant hard work that they do to get out of the problems they face. A person teaches himself the ways to overcome the differences, learn by listening attentively and actively as well as the benefits of working as a team. Strong interpersonal talents and skills are developed.

New friendships play a vital role in the improvement of social communications and interactions. New thinking allows the exchange of new and implementable ideas and gain an additional advice from their respective peers. These cumulative benefits add and contribute to an improved, extra comprehensive environment to learn. Gradually, after passing through these stages and learning phases, a person becomes confident and is much more convinced about the work and steps he ought to take. These successful learning environments allow the person to engage and use these newly learnt skills in their future lessons and commitments.

Hard-skills and soft-skills both are needed in a competitive working environment. Hard skills are like explicit learning, which can be learned through practice and one can verbally explain. Soft-skills, on the other hand, are more comparable with implicit learning and cannot be taught like a normal skill learning. They can be considered a measure of how one is anticipating or perceiving and responding to the events happening in the surrounding environment and I personally believe that all such previous experiences play a tremendous role in shaping one’s soft-skills for any kind of competitive situation. Keeping in mind my previous experiences and future goals, some soft skills that I think will be of vital importance include positive-attitude, teamwork, leadership skills, communication skills and creative thinking.

A number of things can go wrong and countless factors can add up to the problems, however, staying positive, patient and confident can pull you through anything. Working with other colleagues and listening to others’ ideas can definitely create healthy environment and produces better results. Someone with leadership skills can even pull others out of a difficult situation smoothly by quick thinking and decision-making. Communication skills are required in every field of life so one must learn to deal with all kinds of people and should be able to describe personal point of view to others. Creative thinking expands the limits of imagination beyond ordinary and it leads to solutions of the problems that were considered impossible.

Thinking is an important factor that can lead us out of difficult situations. Critical thinking helps us make the best choices after accessing all possibilities in any kind of environment. To develop and enhance the ability as a critical thinker one must first realize their problems with the thinking process. My major problem lies at the very basis of the thinking stages. I cannot organize the plethora of ideas when critically analyzing something. However, by improving from my own mistakes and constant self-evaluation I was able to improve and make peace with my learning process and critical thinking. Improvement in critical thinking helped me excel in the academic fields that always posed great problems for me. I started understanding lectures in a better way and by new strategies. The confidence boost helped me demonstrate solutions through better examples. In other words, critical thinking helped me grow academically in various ways.

Metacognition always influence ones way of thinking as well as understanding a point of view. Improvements in ways of thinking leads to improvements in learning speed, carrying on as slow to fast and fast to dynamic learning. In addition, enhancement in the working pattern occurs regarding problem statements, proper sequencing, precision, accurate and debatable technical reasoning. This enables one to ask more questions, give better reasoning, critical thinking, find better and quality solutions and confluence the ways to find motivations towards the set goals in future. The best benefits include the more options and ammunition of adjustable varieties of handling different situations.

Whenever a course is enrolled, a lot is expected out of it. It is expected to have flexibility to its maximum and depth in the particular areas, setting proper skills for an imaginable career. On meeting the expectations, new connections as well as work and study paths are opened. Improvements are always for the betterment of the society by any means. Thus in my opinion, cooperation with the staff, instructors and peers is very important. So, before the commencement of a course or a degree program, a whole week must be assigned for the orientation sessions.

In these sessions, applications of the related field must be discussed by the respective instructors in detail. Students should know the world and its problems that everyone expects from them to solve. Previously organized studies as well as future applications of the particular field must be thoroughly explained to provide students with something that can help them in choosing their future directions. In these sessions, students should also be given a chance to express their personal views about the particular field or disciplines.

At the end, I would like to advise everyone to be in a constant state of self-evaluation. Competitiveness for the sake of self-improvement can go a long way in developing learning techniques and soft skills of a person and bring success in every field of life.

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