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Ingredients that make a Critical Thinker

If you’re building a Critical Thinker, à

la Dr Frankenstein, here are the abili-

ties and attributes you need:

✓ Tolerance: Critical Thinkers

delight in hearing divergent

views, and enjoy a real debate.

✓ Analytical skills: Critical Think-

ers don’t accept just any kind

of talking. They want properly

constructed arguments that

present reasons and draw sound

conclusions.

✓ Confidence: Critical Thinkers

have to be a little bit confident

to be able to examine views that

others present — often people

in authority.

✓ Curiosity: Critical Thinkers need

curiosity. It may have killed the

cat, but curiosity is the essential

ingredient for ideas and insights.

✓ Truth‐seeking: Critical Thinkers

are on mission ‘objective truth’ —

even if it turns out to under-

mine their own previously held

convictions and long-cherished

beliefs and is flat against their

self‐interest.