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Independent Thinking (Responsibility/Creativity)

INDEPENDENT THINKING MEANS MAKING DECISIONS AND judgments for yourself using your personal ability to reason from the facts of reality. Independence is the realization that you are responsible for your own judgments. We learn a great deal from other people. Teamwork is very important, as will be discussed. But each of us thinks alone. No one can think for you.

One of the reasons independent thinking is critical is that it makes two important attributes both possible and necessary: responsibility and creativity.

The most important meta-psychological decision you can make is to choose to be responsible ...

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