Post by jamiestrickland on Feb 10, 2021 16:48:19 GMT
In context to the text to me life is just follow the leader until you start to "become curious and question and think broadly and adventurously". To me the biggest barrier is our value system with a little bit of emotion. It is what we develop from birth that typically comes from our day to day interactions with our parents, family members, friends, etc. So we create a a value system based on perception that creates barriers to how we perceive the world, content, etc. But it's challenged when we develop those aforementioned skills. It also is based on leaders, how leaders can some time be barriers to critical thinking, 'not allowing people opportunities to see sides of the coin or give opportunities to practice critical thinking.
This may or may not be the best example so I will give 2 examples. The first being when I received my first leadership role within an organization. I was a lot younger during this time and was up for the task but more so took the opportunity because of the title and responsibility. I was under impression that having a job just meant doing your job well at the time but with that comes greater responsibility as well, "oh how I was wrong". Being in that specific experience taught me a lot and now today allows me to reflect on the experience critically, I realized I was not ready for the management opportunity and needed to grow into the role.
The other example, in another previous role , I collected a lot of data for several programs and in doing so, I took it more so at face value without understanding where the data came from. I looked at it as this what they've collected and this what is being reported, I do not need to question it. Eventually one of the managers who reported data left and a new one came on. This new manager informed me the data that was being collected was off which meant all the reports I submitted were wrong as well. If I used critical thinking, then would I have better understood to learn about the program to get an understanding of the data that was presented.
This may or may not be the best example so I will give 2 examples. The first being when I received my first leadership role within an organization. I was a lot younger during this time and was up for the task but more so took the opportunity because of the title and responsibility. I was under impression that having a job just meant doing your job well at the time but with that comes greater responsibility as well, "oh how I was wrong". Being in that specific experience taught me a lot and now today allows me to reflect on the experience critically, I realized I was not ready for the management opportunity and needed to grow into the role.
The other example, in another previous role , I collected a lot of data for several programs and in doing so, I took it more so at face value without understanding where the data came from. I looked at it as this what they've collected and this what is being reported, I do not need to question it. Eventually one of the managers who reported data left and a new one came on. This new manager informed me the data that was being collected was off which meant all the reports I submitted were wrong as well. If I used critical thinking, then would I have better understood to learn about the program to get an understanding of the data that was presented.