What stops me from critical thinking? This is a very good question that I must give a lot of thought too. First I must understand the thinking process before I can determine what the barriers are. Once the thinking process is understood then I must know what the requirements are for the thinking process then finally I can determine what the barriers are.
             Understanding the thinking process is much harder than it seems. I have come to understand that the thinking process involves many different things; things that I just didn't realize played a part in my thinking. It takes stopping and looking at this situation to realize that thinking is the actual sensation in the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin because these things provide our bodies with the sensations which are picked up from the outside world. These sensations are then transmitted by nerves to the biological structures, which send them to the brain, then the brain translates them and sends them out through the nervous system. Then the psychological aspect takes the messages from the brain and translates them into perception and reactions. Now the thinking begins, it turns reactions into concepts, ideas, assumptions, suppositions, inferences, hypotheses, questions, beliefs, premises, logical arguments and so on. Then these ideas, assumptions, beliefs, questions, hypotheses and so on turn into verbal, non-verbal, and written language to communicate the thoughts and ideas which are generated.
             Now that I understand how the thinking process works, I must learn what the requirements are. There are six different skills that we use to understand the thinking process. I realized that I must first be able to interpret, comprehend and express meaning of a wide variety of experiences, situations, data, events, judgments, rules, procedures, and or criteria. Then the analysis, which is to identify the intended and actual inferential relationships among statements, ques
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