JE53 Reasoning and Insight

            Rigor, in definition, means the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate. Having a rigorous attitude benefits our lives because we can reduce the mistakes we make and become more perspicacious with things around us. However, it doesn't guarantee us to understand how everything works. Insight, on the other hand, does. Insight, or an educated guess, is a further inference based on our knowledge to the subject. Making insights makes us understand more thoroughly about the subject because we challenge our brain and work on our critical thinking. Having a good critical thinking skills empower us to have the ability to analyze and solve problems. That’s all science about after all, isn’t it? We observe, make hypothesis, and try to analyze why by doing the experiments. At last, we came up with a conclusion based on the experiment. The whole process is about making inferences based on what we observe and believe. And then we design tests based on our insights to prove it. However, before making all the theories and hypothesis, our observation was surely not enough for a rigorous science because we haven’t seen the “other side” or another “guarantor of correctness in the science”. In order to have a deeper understanding on the subject, we therefore should make insight.