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The primary purpose of this paper is to identify how critical thinking skills contribute to confident, quality decisions, how critical thinking assisted me in my decision to become an occupation therapist as well as in my choice to attend the University of ------------. According to Michael Scriven and Richard Paul in their work Defining Critical Thinking , critical thinking is defined as the "intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action." Multiple benefits are gained by using critical thinking methodology such as an increase in choice accuracy, a boost in confidence, and so on. Therefore, many professionals believe that a critical thinking curriculum should be injected into schools systems at multiple levels.


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