Analytical Reasoning Tips.mp4

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In the last video about analytical thinking, I talked about the four steps to the analytical thinking process, their identify the problem, the term in the problem-solving approach analyze the problem

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And then solve the problem or get an answer

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Most people spend the majority of their time on the third and fourth steps of analyzing and solving the problem

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However, spending more time on the first two steps of analytical, thinking are going to make you better at analytical reasoning and often are going to lead to a faster solution to your problem

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Let's talk about each of these a little bit more first identifying the problem

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This is an analytical reasoning skill that most people haven't spent that much time to develop being part of

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This is caused

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By the way, our entire education system is structured

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Where are used to being? Told what we're supposed to be solving for

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Yes, there are some cases on sats Gres and certain classes, where you're taught to think more

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Critically and talk to determine what the problem is but the vast majority of Education

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Both at the elementary middle, high school and University levels is focused on presenting you with the problem and asking you to solve it

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You might be given a little bit of information here and there to throw you off

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But in general, there's not a lot that you have to do to determine what the problem is when it comes to real world application though, the number of variables shoots up dramatically and the clarity usually

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goes down

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This makes analytical reasoning even more critical

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So, how do you go about improving the skill? Look for Clues as to what needs to be solved

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Ask yourself, how is this part of the bigger picture? Is this a problem? Or is this? Just a symptom of the problem? For instance, if you have a fever, the primary problem isn't that your temperature

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is high? It's that there's some infection or something going on in your body, that your body is trying to fight off by raising your temperature, if you just lower the fever

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That's Really going to address the root cause of what's going on

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There are times when you have to treat the symptoms because the symptoms of themselves can be dangerous and can lead to other problems

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But the majority of the time you still go back to trying to solve the root cause of what cause those symptoms to occur

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Once you've identified your problem, the next step is to identify how you're going to solve it, what are the tools techniques and methods that you're going to use to solve this problem? Is there data that

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you need to solve this problem? It might seem like once you know what the problem is, it makes sense to jump straight into solving

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It spend more time on a good strategy, though can make the whole process faster and it often causes you to think of factors that you might not otherwise consider

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This is one area where it can be really helpful to take a sheet of paper or a whiteboard and sketch out what's going on visualizing

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The problem can help you see where he might be under or over analyzing certain factors in it, it can also help you

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I quickly pick out what tools and data that you might need to be able to solve the problem

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Do you say, analytical reasoning skills are great? No matter what position you're in or even if you're not working the strategies, I mention the big picture overview of what's going on

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And should also help prevent you from having to resolve the same problem multiple times

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This is because you're really fully addressing the problem