Concept Of Rational Thinking

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Concept of Rational Thinking Imagine the following scenario and what you would do: You are a soldier on a battlefield in-charge of an elite team of soldiers with a very unique and dangerous mission. You need to move yourself and your team of twelve soldiers, along with their arsenal of weapons, ammunition, and miscellaneous equipment through a dense jungle in hostile territory to your objective point approximately twenty-eight kilometers away. Now keep in mind that each man is carrying about seventy-five to one hundred pounds of equipment per person. Once you reach your point your mission’s objective comes into play…the objective is to set twenty detonation devices of various explosive and detonating protocols around a Columbian drug Cartel’s manufacturing and processing warehouse. What would your plan be? Have you established all remaining factors? To further establish what the additional factors are, you must introduce some rational thinking into the scenario. “Rational thinking is the act of thinking things through by using reason” (Epstein, Pacini, Denes-Raj, & Heier, 1996, p. 390). This reasoning process uses any observations or facts that have been ascertained, as well as any assumptions made, to assist in making the final decision. This thinking process can apply to anything as intricate as organizing a mass scale military operation, to something seemingly as trivial as maneuvering a stroller through a grocery store. Rational thinking is the foundation to developing a healthy psyche because it enables us to avoid indecision or developing views that conflict with our behavior. Rational thinking may not be quite as reliable as it should be. We know that the ability to reason is a learned ability and an individual generally uses reason once they have developed a response pattern to a situation. This learned result is combined with another

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