Dr. Shiny Unsal distinguishes critical thinking, which seeks accuracy and fairness through questioning, from criticizing, which is a disapproving judgment rooted in personal bias. She introduces "feeding forward," constructive feedback focused on what to do rather than what not to do, and warns that harmful criticism reflects poor listening and perspective.
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Hello everyone, my name is Shiny Unsal. I am the proud creator of Neuroshine Technology, an ICF certified NLP and coach trainer, ICF certified coach, and a leadership professor at UCLA Extension. Are you ready to shine?
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Today I would love to talk to you about critical thinking and how it can be easily mixed with criticizing. You know, you're gonna hear from a lot of people that critical thinking is a necessary skill set, especially if you are a leader and if you are leading teams, projects, and businesses. And there is also this concept of giving feedback, which is also considered as criticism. Those are very similar words and concepts, and yet they're so different from each other. And that's why I would love to bring clarity to these concepts. And if you're ready, let's start with what critical thinking is. Critical thinking is a higher-level brain function. When you value accuracy, when you value truthfulness, when you value fairness, relevance, and being analytical and strategical, that's being critical. When you keep asking questions about the truthfulness of the source, when you keep asking about the context of the situation, when you analyze and evaluate things just to make a fair conclusion and informed decision, that's critical thinking. Whereas criticizing sounds more like disapproval because it is subject to people's approval, right? And criticism is also giving critics, and that's So easily mixed by giving feedback. When you give feedback, what I call is feeding forward, that needs to be constructive. If you put people down, if you tell them what not to do and not what to do, that is criticizing. That's not critical thinking because you're definitely coming from your own subjective filtering, your own values and beliefs and standards, and it has nothing to do with critical thinking. And especially when you are talking only to share people what your opinion is and why they shouldn't act this way or do this or say that, guess what? It's all subjective and it's all about you. It's not about them. It's not about a bigger picture. It's not about a bigger cause. Like, what is it for? It's not critical thinking. It is selfish thinking and it is criticizing. That's what I call level 1 listening and level 1 perspective in my Neuroshine technology, and that's never helpful. So if you would love to learn more about criticizing, criticism, giving critics and critical thinking, of course, I'm going to invite you to visit my website, and I'm going to put a link right over here so you can just easily click and go there. And of course, if you like this video, Please like it and share it with others so that we can all understand the distinction between critical thinking and criticizing, because trust me, criticizing is never good. Because if somebody criticizes you, you will understand how horrible it feels and how not you want to show up in the world. Subscribe to my channel for more videos like this. To maximize your potential so that you and I, we can create a much better world with a lot of love and shiny light.
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