What is rational thinking?
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eli5: Rational thinking is when you rely on what your brain knows to understand something. The word “rational” means that it is based in logic, which is a system people use to determine whether an argument (or a thought) makes sense. If you are behaving or thinking based on only your feelings, you may not be thinking rationally if you can’t point out everything that made you think or act the way you did. For example, if you have a pet hamster that keeps escaping its cage, you might be thinking rationally if you look at the cage to find out how the hamster is escaping and then make a conclusion about how to fix it. However, you might be thinking irrationally if you assume that the hamster is trying to escape because it hates you. Fixing the hamster’s cage is rational because we know that hamsters normally don’t prefer being in a cage but need to be in one to stay safe; assuming the hamster hates you is irrational because it is impossible to know how a hamster feels about anything.
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