Role Of Org

Role of Organizing in Critical Thinking

The Origins of order are like the order of the Universe and structures built within our brains to retain information. In our brains, we have millions and billions of bits of data, scattered all throughout the nerve cells and synapses and without organization, we could not put all of these bits of data together to form gigabytes of information that we can use in our everyday life and careers through symbols that we interpret as language.

Most of the order we learn comes from observing the natural order all around us and that natural order becomes a mental order reflected in our minds. There are four types of order. First, we start with an atom, then a group of atoms become a speck of dust, then a speck of dust becomes a continent, then continents become a planet, then planets become a star, then stars become a galaxy, then galaxies become the Universe, then Universes become a Multiverse. (Topical Order) Analogical order is metaphoric, such as flowers are like trees, chair is like table, cat is like dog, humans are like apes. Chronological order is equated with time, how many revolutions did you ride on this ball of rock around our star? Have you noticed any changes in your body? What about changes in your environment? We watch changes sequentially. Causal order is concerned with changes that happen with chronological order. If a car skids out of control and hits a tree, what was the cause? Was it driver neglect? Was the car hydroplaning? Did the brakes function properly? We look for changes or effects that caused the accident.

After we have done some starbursting or brainstorming and gathered a lot of data, we need to do some clustering of that information. First we cluster the information, then second we analyze the information by adding new clusters, deleting some clusters, changing clusters to make the information more sensible. Then thirdly we prioritize the information and make an outline out of it, by placing the information in order. Usually when I am in a meeting at work and we are looking for new ideas for decisions that have to be made, we will often brainstorm and acquire