Critical thinking helps us to make sense of the overwhelming amount of information we must absorb and process on a daily basis. However, in order to think critically we have to overcome many of the barriers that make it difficult to identify and understand problems and their potential solutions. In this paper we will look at those barriers, try to understand why one might overcome them, and through examples discover how prominent they are to …showed first 75 words of 1019 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1019 total…your own errors in thinking!) Rethink your past, looking for those times when you may have made an error similar in another situation and learn from it. What ever you do don't be defensive! Give your mind the job of identifying thinking errors as they are happening. As you monitor yourself, catching a thinking error, think about what happened and the habit that caused the error. Think about how you could have handled it better.