I’m not here to tell you what critical thought is, that you can find out on yourself by quickly googling it. I’m not really doing this to educate you, I’m doing this the enable yourself to educate yourself. You see I’m a young artist whose ideas and impressions of life has led me to wanting to formulate some of these thoughts to you, in a philosophical but as objective as possible manner in which you will hopefully gain some perspective in order to apply your critical thought to the subjects and situations I will address as well as help you further your critical thought so that you yourself will apply perspective when thinking critically in day to day life.

As I mentioned earlier, I’m a young artist, with young being the focus here. I’ve had a interesting life as of yet with many experiences, cultures and places to work with despite my age, but lets talk about that later. I want to focus on how I myself learned why not only critical thought but applying others perspective and even perspectives of people who wouldn’t even apply to that given situation can help you get on with life in a manner that benefits not only yourself but everything around you.

I was always interested in art and used to doodle in all my books, even those you read from, and it was through wanting to focus on learning more about the techniques and skills needed to be a good visual artist that I learned about critical thinking. To those that know me it was in Banda Primary School in Kenya, just before the robbery. She was teaching us different drawing techniques when she taught us critical thinking, I was young so I only applied it to my art, sadly. Later on in life after a few more fuck up’s and experiences worth noting another time I started applying critical thought to my daily life and boy what a difference that made, but it didn’t get me where I wanted and I was really clueless to the fact as why I couldn’t get any further.

The reason, at least in my opinion as to why I couldn’t was because I wasn’t using perspective along with my critical thought. Yes I was always trying to be objective, and question my actions but somehow its really hard to see someone else’s point of view or even understand somebody else completely without trying to see it from their perspective. The problem with critical thought and perspective is that critical thought can be applied to anything you encounter or think about whereas perspective requires either insight into that person’s life and views or research on that person to find out about their lifestyle and opinions, and even then you can’t fully stand in their shoes due to your upbringing, social and cultural background as well as how you grow up at home. You can’t read their mind and hear their thoughts, so being critical from their perspective is harder than you think but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. And because philosophy and psychology exists we can apply that knowledge to make some reasonable assumptions based off fact to better try and see the situation or subject at hand from that given perspective. With practice you get good at reading people and understanding their views better.

Heh, I’m not claiming to be perfect in my ways, I repeat, I’m only 22 and I have a ton to learn and a bunch of wisdom that only comes with age that I lack. However, I might be able to formulate some interesting material based off substantiated research that might be not only helpful but give insight into how to be more critical and even give you some different perspectives on that materiel that might just blow your mind or make you change your own perspective on it, whatever the case I hope will enjoy my content and support me in the future. I don’t want to become famous or earn a lot of money, I just want to make this world a safer better more peaceful place for humanity and nature. I fear we might be wrong about a lot of stuff and we have the power to change it. You just need to see it for yourself as I have.

Irie and peace to all until next time.