Critical Thinking Character Traits

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Critical Thinking Character Traits
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Nosich Chapter 1

• Intellectual Courage realizing that you may not
  already know the right/best answer but
  challenging accepted beliefsdealing with your
  FBIs
• Commitment to using your best thinking to address
  questions rather than letting other forces do
  your thinking for youdealing with previous
  commitments developmental thinking

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Nosich Chapter 2

• Intellectual Perseverance the willingness to
  keep pushing, to not give up with the first,
  easiest, or most comfortable answerfighting the
  autopilot
• Fair-mindedness the willingness to consider
  other ways of seeing an issue, even when they
  differ greatly from or challenge your own way of
  seeing itdemanding of yourself what you expect
  of others

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Nosich Chapter 3

• Intellectual Empathy the willingness to learn
  HOW a discipline thinks and to choose to view the
  world from that point of viewbe it as an
  educator, an artist, a business person, or
  whomeverstepping into character
• Intellectual Humility the willingness to admit
  how much more there is to learn, in your own
  discipline and in othersfighting egocentrism

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Nosich Chapter 4

• Intellectual Integrity willingness to hold
  yourself to the same high standards you hold
  others to.
• Pursuit of truth willingness to change your
  mind, even if its painful or leads you to an
  uncomfortable place.

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Nosich Chapter 5

• Intellectual autonomy The maturity and
  willingness to think for yourself, to step beyond
  autopilot thinking and choosing to think
  mindfully, to stop and say This is water.