--- Healthy skepticism.
--- The art of thinking for oneself.
--- The willingness to allow emotions and a bodily "felt sense" into our decisions.
--- The need to clearly define terms.
--- Transcendence of conformity and fear of not following the crowd. The ability to recognize the dangers of group-think.
--- The willingness to tolerate discomfort, if this is what emerges when we face a data that contradicts conventional, consensual answers.
--- Courage and commitment to facing and acting on what we perceive to be true, even it means bucking the crowd. This is not as easy as it sounds.
--- Lack of ego-investment in conclusions and letting go of the need to be "right".
--- Letting go of the need for control.
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Obstacles to critical thinking
--- Unexamined assumptions and slanted emotionally based, egocentric thought.
--- The habit of closed-mindedness and fear of expanding one's point of view. Attachment to narrow perspectives and unquestioned ideologies.
--- Authoritarianism: following a charismatic leader, ideology or dogma. This includes the insistence on "being right and the willingness to admit when we are wrong."
--- Passivity and mental laziness: unwillingness to check the reliability of our sources of information to determine their merit. Failing to discern research bias. Not bothering to obtain confirmation from multiple sources. Feeling it is "too much work" to scrutinize evidence and dissect opposing arguments.
--- Absence of an adequate fund of knowledge about the world.
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