Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

Michael W. Austin, columnist of PsychologyToday.com wrote, “critical thinking is disciplined thinking that is governed by clear intellectual standards.  This involves identifying and analyzing arguments and truth claims, discovering and overcoming prejudices and biases, developing your own reasons and arguments in favor of what you believe, considering objections to your beliefs, and making rational choices about what to do based on your beliefs.” The standards that are most important in my life are reasonable, reliable, ethical, loving, and spiritual.  I have always been reasonable and reliable for my family and in the workplace.  At work, as a leader, my direct report and colleagues know that I am a reliable person.  They know that they can always depend on me to response to their needs in a timely manner.  Whenever my direct reports commit errors or submit their reports not on a timely manner, as far as I can help it, I make sure that I give them the benefit of the doubt and let

           The Critical Thinking Community defines Intellectual Perseverance as “having a consciousness of the need to use intellectual insights and truths in spite of difficulties, obstacles, and frustrations; firm adherence to rational principles despite the irrational opposition of others; a sense of the need to struggle with confusion and unsettled questions over an extended period of time to achieve deeper understanding or insight.”   ( http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/valuable-intellectual-traits/528 )               Nathan L. King of Whitworth University, describes intellectual perseverance as a person-relative.  He said, “Intellectual perseverance is a matter of continuing in one’s intellectual projects for an appropriate amount of time, despite the threat of obstacles to the completion of these projects. This virtue is often exhibited in attempts to discover new truths, but it does not require this—attempts to articulate and apply old truths can exemplify perseverance.