5 Best Tips to Becoming a Critical Thinker
The merging if knowledge, intuition, and wisdom
6 min readAug 16, 2023
Critical thinking — the ability to analyze facts and form a judgment. — is not something that comes naturally to us. We are much more likely to be emotionally motivated.
To become a critical thinker requires a love of both knowledge and wisdom. To act on this ‘love’ requires the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about…
- existence,
- faith,
- truth,
- art,
- culture,
- history,
- reason,
- knowledge,
- values,
- ethics,
- morality,
- the mind,
- strategic thinking,
- … And language.
Questions related to these questions, are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. The tools, techniques and methods employed by critical thinkers include questioning, critical discussion, rational argument, and systematic presentation.
Historically, critical thinking (called philosophy) encompassed all bodies of knowledge and a practitioner of this type of thought…
