<span>People often hold beliefs based on bad reasoning, or not based on any reasoning at all. Critical Thinking helps people to develop beliefs that are more likely to be true. Unfortunately, there are a lot of obstacles to critical thinking, such as institutionalized thinking, habitual thinking, ideology, an inability to think independently, fear of antagonizing others, fear of losing one's own identity, wishful thinking, etc. etc. The first step to become a critical thinker is to become aware of those obstacles, and thus not only enabling one to actually become a critical thinker, but also realizing that the world would probably be a better place if we all did some more critical thinking. Indeed, critical thinking is the cornerstone of science, philosophy, and a healthy democracy.</span>
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People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that’s not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven’t forgotten.
