Thursday, March 8, 2012
Sally Ride
Sally Ride is a great example of a critical thinker. In college her friends said she is "calm and totally focused...always able to see the heart of things... to quickly think, figure it out, crystallize it." Later in life, Ride was the first woman to be an astronaut and go to space in 1983. She was able to accomplish this because of her analytical and critical thinking skills. Also, because of her outstanding communication skills she was appointed as the person who handles all group-to-staff communication for the first and second shuttle flights. She put the NASA reports together and presented them to the United Nations which shows her excellent writing and public speaking abilities. She is now the head of Sally Ride Science which sponsors camps that encourages girls' science interests. The camp also helps the girls build their leadership, writing and communication skills, all of which are necessary for success in the future.
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I agree with you, Sally Ride definitely used her qualities of a good critical thinker to her very advantage to accomplish her goals in life. Her accomplishments are very impressive, this shows how far critical thinking skills can get you in life. I think it is very important for every individual to develop all these qualities and skills if we want to be successful. This allows us to develop leadership skills and communicating skills. I also believe in order to be a good critical thinker, you must be able to analyze situations in every perspective, or in other words "to think outside the box".
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