For Medicare, too, a higher eligibility age and means testing will be proposed. Democratic resistance will derail most of the longer-term reform efforts, for now. In time, though, some of the changes will have to be put into place to avoid major cuts in benefits.
Thus critical thinking has a creative component: to produce a better product of thought And creative thinking has a critical component: to reshape thinking in keeping with criteria of excellence. Critical thinking without a creative output is merely negative thinking. Creative thinking without a critical component is merely novel thinking. It is easy to be merely negative or novel in oneâs thought.
I shall argue, in other words, that critical thinking provides the crucial link between intelligence and emotions in the emotionally intelligent person. Critical thinking, I believe, is the only plausible vehicle by means of which we could bring intelligence to bear upon our emotional life.