What's the Critical Thinking? & Are you a Critical Thinker?

What is the critical thinking?
Are you a critical thinker?

In my opinion, the basic concept of "Critical thinking" is: an ability of logical thinking, we use it every day. It makes us better understand the information from our life.
I was not a good critical thinker before I learned this course. After one semester, I learned much knowledge and methods from our professor, textbooks, and talk with my classmates. I understood the methods how to become a critical thinker. Let me show my summary as followed:

1. Ask questions
Not only ask questions to others for an answer, but also ask questions to yourself for an answer. And ask questions about the answers you get. At last, to think about the questions, ask questions about the questions.

2. Define the problem; try to know how do I describe it?
An accurate use of words improves our thinking. To find the definition of the words from the dictionaries, make sure that you understand what the vocabulary means.

3. Examine the evidence
The goal is to have evidence or facts that are reliable and true. When we think well, we assess all facts, derive as many inferences as we can, and devise strategies for confirming or obtaining more information.

At last, we need to make a conclusion from evidence. This course brought me a new concept "Critical Thinking", I like it and I'll use it every time in the future.