LeftBrain Thinking
Breaking down and taking apart... AnalyticalThinking
AnalyticalThinking allows us to comprehend the parts of the situations while SyntheticThinking enables us to understand how they work together.
Understanding | If we push ourselves to add lots of links between our notes, that makes us think expansively about what other concepts might be related to what we’re thinking about. It creates pressure to think carefully about how ideas relate to each other - AnalyticalThinking - the difference between synthetic thinking & analytical thinking
Analysis Examine and break information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalisations. AnalyticalThinking
In a way CriticalThinking a process of first 'doing' AnalyticalThinking then 'doing. SyntheticThinking
MyThought | SyntheticThinking is a step in insight development Idea Development big-ideas where you think about the raw information AnalyticalThinking you've brought together in a research process. This step is where you explore how the different "sub systems" interact and influence each other as a whole; what relationship & implications arise out of their interactions? What other systems interact with them? The deduction you create from this type of thinking creates insights insight. Nugget
While CriticalAnalysis AnalyticalThinking requires you to examine ideas, evaluate them against what you already know and make decisions about their merit, CriticalReflection ()SyntheticThinking) requires you to synthesise different perspectives (whether from other people or literature) to help explain, justify or challenge what you have encountered in your own or other people’s practice.