In the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), what skills make up the "Thinking" dimension?

Critical thinking, complexity awareness, perspective skills, sense-making, and long-term orientation/visioning.

The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) are an open-source framework of inner skills (5 dimensions, 23 skills) meant to develop the human capacities needed to actually achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals — the idea being that we lack the inner abilities to handle our increasingly complex world. Critical thinking lives in the Thinking dimension:

• Critical thinking — the ability to critically review the validity of views, evidence, and plans.
• Complexity awareness — understanding and skilfully handling complex, systemic conditions and causal relationships.
• Perspective skills — actively seeking, understanding, and using insights from differing perspectives.
• Sense-making — recognising patterns, structuring the unknown, and consciously shaping narratives.
• Long-term orientation and visioning — formulating and sustaining long-term visions in relation to the larger context.

The grouping makes the point that critical thinking isn't a lone skill: judging validity (critical thinking) works alongside grasping complexity, taking multiple perspectives, making sense of the unfamiliar, and keeping the long view.

Tip: "Thinking" in the IDGs is broader than logic — it bundles critical evaluation with systems-awareness, perspective-taking, sense-making, and vision.