What is Critical Thinking
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Critical thinking is a series of strategies and practices to process information in a logical, clear, and consistent manner (which results in stronger ideas that better reflect reality).
It’s an important skillset because humans are extremely error prone with their thinking and tend to build their ideas based on emotions and messy mental shortcuts. Critical reasoning is about learning how to keep those emotions in check, and avoid those messy shortcuts.
Classically, those emotional arguments and mental shortcuts are called [logical fallacies](https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/common-logical-fallacies), and people often start out building their critical thinking skills by learning how to identify logical fallacies and avoid them.
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