User:Nzuva Silas

 Why Critical and Creative Thinking is a must for socioeconomic and political development 

Why do third-world countries and specifically Africa sacrifice lots of  efforts in their work but the results of such are no more than pure humiliation and low income? This is a question that has troubled my peace for a commendable period, forcing me to analyze the issue at hand and come up with a suggestion /solution in attempt to solve the same. A brief overview on why developing nations work so hard yet the fruits of the hard labor keep on depreciating did put me in a state of meditation on this unfair issue. If rationality is held under high esteem, the output of any activity should be of great significance and value. However much we stress on hard work and rationality, a brief research conducted recently pointed out ‘the driving force’ behind achievement of any activity. Mere guesses won’t help but only trouble-shoot your brains because the factor under consideration is just too basic to be reflected on .No matter how well you invest in an activity, never will u enjoy any increment on the scale of output without this ‘force’, which is ‘thinking’. The act of thinking before action has been found to work magic by having the ability to overturn and convert damn unproductive activity to a very productive activity. Work is the fundamental aspect to a country’s development. However, thinking is the basic function of the brain that drives all human activities. The results of thinking vary in accordance with the various levels of thinking. For any developing nation, thinking can only be viewed under the scale of critics and creativity.

Critical and creative thinking is the mode of thinking about any subject content or problem in which the thinker improves the quality of thinking by skillfully analyzing and reconstructing the thinking. This mode of thinking is essential in a working nation and hence should be assimilated to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of work therefore promoting quality output. Post-conventional mode of thinking before work results to proper planning and thus the citizens are guaranteed success. Before engaging in  any activity, the citizens should analyze its due course, not forgetting its consequences and advantages for them to major on any weaknesses noted for better results. This level of thinking necessary for developing countries breeds the following facts towards work. Idea development. This entails coming up with new strategies, ways and conditions of working. It aims at improving the quality of work through conceiving new methods and ways that hasten quality working. This is achieved by proper planning, logical and factual analysis of the activities to be undertaken for quality assurance of success. Proper reasoning and objective layout. The ideas generated are therefore filtered out by eliminating the least effective through employment of citizen perception towards the same. For any successful activity, objective layout is a necessity and thus should be well pronounced by setting various expectations, targets and creation of fallback plan if any chance of failure is detected. In addition, everyone is entitled to success of only proper objectives and concise reasoning is given a chance before decision making. Goal orientation. Goal orientation is setting of basic standards or expectation within certain duration under specified circumstances or condition. Goal setting is one of the basic concepts that define the ultimate expectations of citizens, when undertaking various activities. This guides the citizens on how to go about the activity without much wastage of time and energy. Working under defined goals makes any activity simpler and easy thus improving the conditions of the same. Therefore, the set objectives directs the citizens towards great achievement and hence success. The implication of goal setting is essential only to the post-conventional thinkers. However, for the above basic concepts to work, several other considerations have to be made including; Beliefs that make up assumptions. The achievements of an organization are the results of combined efforts of individual hard work. In any subject nation assumptions play a great roll in basement of the various reasons of undertaking a certain activity. Individuals therefore conceptualize the facts taken for granted about a certain activity, beliefs of the society to the work and finally the reality of the working condition according to the subject society. The individuals then analyze  gathered information to make inferences and hence gaining skills for better work achievement. Reasoning evidence. The beliefs and other factors of consideration e.g. education help in provision of evidence necessary for decision making. This therefore gives a chance /opportunity for the citizens to choose the most satisfying and valuable activity. The workers therefore stand a chance to attain better results and hence the significance of thinking in a working nation is highly noted. Conclusion on the type of work to undertake. With various evidence clearly outlined, the individual can successively proceed to making the best-fit decision on the nature and type of work to undertake. This can be made easier by clear outline of objectives, ideologies and laid-down plans. Consequences of the decision arrived at should be given a clear focus as a way of curbing any aftermath effects. Generally, all working nations should adopt the action of thinking, before any activity. The above information summarizes the advantages of the same in addition to giving various concepts on how to go about it. For any activity to have an overwhelming outcome, the outlined factors should be put to practice irrespective of social class or the type of work to be done. Going against the above facts amounts only to inverse work output.

Nzuva 2013