What Brown mentioned in his book "Learning to Ask" about the state of responding to a piece of information is: What is the quality of its evidence?

The book "Learn to Ask Questions" lists a large number of examples from scientific research and daily life, teaching people how to raise, think, judge and solve problems rationally, logically and critically; they need to be critical Only by thinking can we learn to distinguish between true and false information and speech in a noisy and chaotic world. However, in ordinary education, "critical thinking" is lacking, and its application in real life is also limited.

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Critical thinking in "Learning to Ask Questions":

Weak critical thinking is the use of critical thinking to defend one's current beliefs. Strong critical thinking is the use of critical thinking to evaluate all assertions and beliefs, especially your own.

These two ways of thinking correspond to open-minded people and closed-minded people. I have always believed that being closed-minded is very scary. It loses a lot of possibilities and lacks empathy. It is what I understand as narrow-mindedness. If we just want to defend an opinion of our own, we can certainly find sufficient reasons to support it, but this will lose the meaning of understanding critical thinking.

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