Think with Pubudini Jayasekara

Do people understand you always ? Why is it easy to get along with some people than others? Communication happens on the listener's terms. Everything you say to a person is filtered through his frames of reference, biases and preconceived ideas. We have to deal with different people in our day today life. They might be different in every aspects. According to the  book "Surrounded by Idiots " by Thomas Erikson, we can identify there are 4 types of different behaviours of people and how they communicate with each other. According to above book people can be categorised into four colours named Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. These are primary behavioural types which describe how people sees themselves in relationship to their environment. Every person cannot work together because of their different behaviours. So we must have a good understand about other's behaviours. Otherwise conflicts can be occurred. Each colour represent different type of behaviour patterns. Let us g...

  What is Critical Thinking ? Critical thinking is the analysis of available facts, evidence, observations, and arguments in order to form a judgement by the application of rational, sceptical, and unbiased analyses and evaluation. Critical thinking refers to the higher-order thinking of evaluating and analysing according to Bloom's Taxonomy.  Characteristics of Critical Thinking :- 1. A ctive  listening . 2. Curiosity 3. Self-discipline 4. Humility   1. A ctive  listening: Ways of practising  active listening: Listen to understand Ask deeper questions Avoid interruptions Withhold judgements Train mind Slow down and practise silence Take non verbal cues   2. Curiosity  : When we are curious, the brain is primed to learn retain information because it trains our brain to think critically. 3. Self-discipline : To think critically we should have the self disciplined on taking actions. We should not come to immediate conclusions and actions. We s...