Simple questions to help solve difficult problems. This is an absolute core skill of a strong critical thinker. This subject will be broken up into four parts. Part One, ask yourself. The critical thinker has an insatiable curiosity and doesn't take things at face value. Asking questions about information and information sources is fundamental to the critical thinking process.

Two critical questions to ask when determining the value of information are this information Make sense? What does my common sense intuition, experience and education? Tell me about this information? If the answers to either of these questions concern you, then learn more about the information and its source. Sometimes, you may get a bad feeling known as red flag. This is a clear sign to dig deeper to find note about the information and its source or sources.

Red Flags often come from past experience or knowledge. Sometimes you get a red flag and don't know why. This frequently comes from experience or knowledge your unconscious mind remembers, but your conscious mind doesn't. learning to trust and validate your intuition takes time, patience and practice. Sometimes information doesn't even pass the laugh test. The laugh test is failed.

When you realize the information is so ridiculous that you know what to be wrong. critical questions help open your mind to look at written and spoken information objectively the information may be correct, then again, it may be biased or wrong. by not taking information as fact, just because it was written or spoken. You begin to discriminate information This can lead to sound opinions and decisions about the information.