Rules of Thinking, The

CRITICAL THINKING

Your mind needs to be honed and trained to think healthily, to be organised, to make decisions, to be creative and to solve problems. And there’s one last group of skills the true Rules thinker has to master. You need to be able to think critically – that’s in the old-fashioned sense of criticism, which is not about being negative but simply about evaluating.

These Rules will enable you to evaluate arguments, to think logically, to form balanced and valid opinions, to make connections, to detect inconsistency. You will be able to listen to someone else’s viewpoint, read an article online, or study a book, and then evaluate it, assess data, analyse statistics, and form your own intellectual view on its merits. So it follows ...