Practical Thinking
Practical thinking is how you adapt to or change your environment to fit your needs and assist you in meeting your goals. Practical thinking is also known as common sense or street smarts. Practical thinking isn't only about yourself, it involves people and your surrounding and how well you can read situations. Body language tells you just how comfortable or nervous someone may be allowing you to adjust to the environment.
For example: You have a goal to pass your math class in school and you learn mostly through visual presentations. To achieve your goal, you use the instructor's PowerPoints to enhance your learning (adapting to the environment) or enroll in an online version of the course (changing the environment to adapt to you).
For example: You have a goal to pass your math class in school and you learn mostly through visual presentations. To achieve your goal, you use the instructor's PowerPoints to enhance your learning (adapting to the environment) or enroll in an online version of the course (changing the environment to adapt to you).
If you have good practical thinking skills, you are able to:
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Action is the logical result of practical thinking.
Basic student success strategies that promote action—staying motivated, making the most of your strengths, managing time, seeking help from instructors and advisers, and believing in yourself—will keep you moving toward your goals.
staying motivated, making the most of your strengths, managing
time, seeking help from instructors and advisers, and believing in yourself are some of the largest parts of completing goals
Basic student success strategies that promote action—staying motivated, making the most of your strengths, managing time, seeking help from instructors and advisers, and believing in yourself—will keep you moving toward your goals.
staying motivated, making the most of your strengths, managing
time, seeking help from instructors and advisers, and believing in yourself are some of the largest parts of completing goals
Learning From Mistakes
When people resist making mistakes, they deny themselves a chance to learn and develop their powers of reasoning. When you make mistakes it only helps overall, learning from your mistakes will allow you to understand how to improve yourself and ultimately add to your experience and make you better than before.
It can also be helpful to talk to other people that have made similar mistakes and see if a different perspective teaches you something.
It can also be helpful to talk to other people that have made similar mistakes and see if a different perspective teaches you something.
Solving Problems Effectively
- Define the problem
- Analyze the problem
- Generate possible solutions
- Evaluate solutions
- Put the solution to work
- Evaluate how well the solution worked
- In the future, apply what you’ve learned