Critical Thinking

The difference between a fast read and a right one. Naming the assumption before you name the cause.

Every wrong call on a busy floor starts as a confident read. The familiar cause, the chart you recognize, the memory of the last time — they arrive as certainty and skip the step where you check whether they are true. Critical thinking is that skipped step, done on purpose, fast enough to keep the line moving.

This course runs a week of reads that could go either way. Seven times it hands you a signal and a hunch about what caused it, and makes you separate the claim from the evidence before you act — without stalling the floor to be certain.

You will practice:

• Naming the assumption you are about to act on, and checking what changed, before you name a cause
• Catching the bias pulling your read — the familiar cause, the chart you recognize, the vivid memory — and testing it
• Separating a claim from its evidence, and asking whether the evidence holds it up
• Asking one good question and deciding in proportion, without stalling to be certain