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People have said “critical thinking”. I agree, but we can be more specific than that:
This covers so many other things.
My usual specific go-to is how to search the internet for things. But not knowing how to search for hyper-specific things is the symptom of a lack of critical thinking skills.
Interesting. So you're saying that critical thinking is not what I mentioned, but rather it is something different (an "other thing"). What would you say critical thinking is?
Not at all, I'm saying that many smaller problems people often cite are simply symptoms of a lack of critical thinking.
Ah. It sounds as if you’re saying that critical thinking skills are the base of many skills. That’s actually an interesting issue: could you increase skills by skill and end up with someone that is a critical thinker? Or is critical thinking something fundamental that naturally manifests in many different skills?