Characteristics of a Critical Thinker

We all have our flaws. We gossip, boast, and over exaggerate. While were fulfilling our ego we can often deny ourselves intellectual growth and opportunity. We may not always want to apply critical thinking skills, but we should have those skills available to be employed when needed.

We are thinking critically when we use: reason over emotion, require evidence, ignore unknown evidence, and follow evidence where it leads, and are concerned more with finding the best explanation than being right analyzing apparent confusion and asking questions.

When I employ the characteristics of a critical thinker, it is mostly when I am driving. I try to be rational, self-aware, and discipline. I am discipline and self-aware in the sense that I stay within the speed limit, I stay off my phone, and I am always keeping constant awareness of my surroundings. I recognize my own faults while driving and use them to enhance myself as a driver and to furthermore make the roads safer. I try to be rational when other drivers around me want to speed and dodge in and out of traffic. When people dodge in and out of traffic there not only endangering their lives but the lives of others. I really love it when there dodging traffic and they cut me off and I have to slam on the breaks, which is my favorite. Even after all this I try to remain calm and not flip a gasket. I become a critical thinker in the car.