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Show Notes
Critical thinking is a vital skill which is sadly absent from most people's schooling. It is the systematic questioning of everything by time-tested tools of logic in order to assess the merits and demerits of any claim a person might make about what is real and what is right. This episode examines the fundamentals of how to think in such a way that one combines open-mindedness with a careful scrutiny of all ideas, no matter their source or emotional colouring – a skill upon which our well-being and happiness depends, individually and collectively. Underpinning such a skilful application of the mind, however, must always be the practice of the art of living in the present moment free of any thinking at all; the core of wisdom being the ability to enter mental silence and observe various thoughts impartially.