The Need For Critical Thinking

Never in my lifetime have I seen greater need for critical thinking.

You can choose your position and cherry pick your facts. There's an abundance of facts.
It's easy to adopt the popular narrative or the narrative of your closest circle.

Practice critical thinking, if you get good at it you will have a huge advantage.
How to practice:

- Learn to emotionally detach from controversial issues and examine them.
- Learn to identify bias and filter data and opionion knowing the bias.
- Learn to analyze data. You can make many different assumptions from the same data set. You can even make quite contrary assumptions from the same data set.
- Learn to listen to opinions different from yours. It doesn't mean you have to accept them, but learn to listen to them and sort fact from fiction, good idea from bad idea.
- Read, read, read and then listen, listen, listen. Then learn to articulate your view in writing or orally.