Evolved Common Sense

October 2023

Evolved Common Sense

Critical thinking is not just to “dive deeper” into ideas. It is to find a topic, idea, and solution and to deconstructed it and keep asking questions until you or the other person breaks down into oblivion where the answers cannot justify the questions being asked, and there is no more answers to give. 

Common sayings will say something along the lines of going beneath the surface level, the tip of the iceberg or something of those bland sayings is something entirely other. The people who use those are the ones who need the understanding of critical thinking.

But I can not describe what the surface level is. Each senecio is different. One may not have to go extremely deep into understanding the topics, ideas, and/or solutions. 

One can not pre plan the surface level. One must learn to evolve while the conversation unfolds. 

Overtime, the one questioning, the questioner/critical thinker, evolves the ability to articulate the high-level criticism. The criticism should not be negative, but to help yourself and the one you are trying to evaluate. 

But I do believe sometimes negative and harsh realism is imperative. Taking a hammer to a rock and smashing, breaking, exposing each particle until you see and are able to extract the gold from the inside.

That is the purpose for each moment. Questioning to an extreme, harshly or quietly, and gently pursuing and constantly spiraling into the clarity you both can subconsciously agree on. You both will know it, the critical thinking, is done because there will be a quiet sense of revelation. 

If one stops the dedication to think, critique, and define, then ones creativity is dead.