Top Highlights

• Critical thinkers make decisions for themselves. They use many resources to gather information, consider the information, and then make good decisions. Critical thinkers don’t look to someone else to tell them the answer. You are your own best source for answers.
• You need a system to deal with all that data. You need a way to filter out all the bullshit. And you need a way to consider only the information that’s truly important.
• Most questions do not require more than one or two principles applied before you get to your answer.
• Once you know HOW to think, the rest is just plugging in the data. You pick the question, apply some critical thinking principles, and a short time later you have an answer that makes your life better.
• This is Principle #1 because it all starts here. Many of our other principles can be considered in any order, but an Open Mind must always come first.