My wife and I recently got into a small argument about the amount of groceries that we needed for the week. She informed me that we were out of bread. I had previously remembered there being a full loaf on top of the counter so I told her that we didn’t need it. After talking it through, I spent the $2.18 to stop the argument. As it turns out, she was right. After a long period of thinking, I realized that it had been almost 4 days since I had a sandwich and I am not the only person in the house. If I had thought about this before by recalling when it was I last had the bread instead of instantly assuming I was right I could have saved myself the shame of being wrong that my wife playfully rubbed in my face.

Free will is the ability to act on your own accord. By exercising free will, an individual chooses to form their own thought on a given situation. Truth is a certainty. By knowing truths, individuals are able to set up parameters that allow them form the base of their knowledge. Knowledge is what is known to be truth. The more knowledge an individual haves the easier it is to form an accurate opinion. Opinion is the way an individual or group feels towards a certain topic. By having an opinion, they are also in the slightest way exercising free will. Each element branches into one another which help’s provide the thinker with the correct information that are needed to articulate the though process

Stereotyping is a hinder to critical thinking. By already having on a topic due to generalization, the thinker limits themselves to their ability to gain further knowledge due to the belief that they already know. Conformity also hinders critical thinking. Although not all conformity is bad, it can still be damaging to the critical thinking process. This can occur by worrying about what others think. By doing that rather than form a clear truth about a situation,