I agree, at least in general- I think of critical thinking and communication as overlapping but very distinct skills.
I believe that if an idea hasn't been articulated yet (put into words, whether in writing or speech or thought), it hasn't been fully formed.
There's a saying that you don't truly understand something until you have to explain it to somebody else, and that's because it's not until you have to explain it to somebody else that you are forced to articulate the entire thing by serializing it (ugh) into words. Putting things into words nails down meaning in a way that can make logical problems or false assumptions much more obvious.
So, IMO communication is a two-pronged challenge. One challenge is articulating something that may have previously existed in a partially-formed state in the back of our heads. The other challenging is adapting that articulation to be as lossless and efficient as possible when directed at a specific audience. Communication is only successful if the signal is both successfully transmitted and successfully received. When we fail, it's easy to blame the audience, but IMO more often than not it's our own failure to read the room and we just don't like admitting that to ourselves. It's human nature to get defensive and use excuses like, "they were focused on nitpicking my words and not listening to my ideas!" That excuse in particular has become a huge red flag for me.
I believe that if an idea hasn't been articulated yet (put into words, whether in writing or speech or thought), it hasn't been fully formed.
There's a saying that you don't truly understand something until you have to explain it to somebody else, and that's because it's not until you have to explain it to somebody else that you are forced to articulate the entire thing by serializing it (ugh) into words. Putting things into words nails down meaning in a way that can make logical problems or false assumptions much more obvious.
So, IMO communication is a two-pronged challenge. One challenge is articulating something that may have previously existed in a partially-formed state in the back of our heads. The other challenging is adapting that articulation to be as lossless and efficient as possible when directed at a specific audience. Communication is only successful if the signal is both successfully transmitted and successfully received. When we fail, it's easy to blame the audience, but IMO more often than not it's our own failure to read the room and we just don't like admitting that to ourselves. It's human nature to get defensive and use excuses like, "they were focused on nitpicking my words and not listening to my ideas!" That excuse in particular has become a huge red flag for me.