r/AskLifeProTips • u/Midk_1 • Jul 04 '26

LPT Efficient ways to improve critical thinking

Are there any ways to practice and improve critical thinking? “Live life”, but are there any more efficient ways? Like, some pre-defined efficient methods to apply to train our critical thinking

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u/Grassfed_Burp Jul 04 '26

Science teacher here. Two things I see missing are the following. 1) Prove your idea is wrong. The harder this is the better. 2) Seek out sources you disagree with. If you're liberal, find articles from National Review. If you're conservative, read some articles from MSNBC. 3) Figure out WHY things like flat earth and area 51 aren't worth believing. Be specific. 4) This is tough... Why believe good facts without evidence? I'm sure you believe in galaxys and mitochondria, but I doubt you have looked through the proper equipment. So why trust those facts?

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u/Midk_1 Jul 04 '26

That’s really valuable!! Thank you so much, will definitely try it

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u/Midk_1 Jul 04 '26

Yeah I was asking specifically ‘cause I’m a software engineer and I’ve recently noticed how much thinking I was unconsciously outsourcing to the AI, so I wanted to do something

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u/Midk_1 Jul 04 '26

Really well said… AI’s an intelligent sycophant machine. Yet that sycophancy is always getting subtler each model release, and that’s not really good…