By critical thinking, I suppose I mean more along the lines of evaluate this text or claim or media

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    I’m not so much looking for “brain games” as something that facillitates practicing crit thinking in terms of recognizing and evaluating claims and detecting biases and rhetoric etc. Maybe media crit a bit also, like “what are the claims being made and argue against them or what is a counterargument” etc

    I wonder if that law school entrance exam prep thingy would be helpful…

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      Read good fiction or literature, those are the bread and butter processes of critically reading truly good fiction that doesn’t hamfistedly oversimplify the human condition.

      Here are some recommendations:

      To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

      or

      Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

      I am not talking about scifi that is more interested in the technical details of space war than giving characters depth, though there is plenty of amazing scifi of course!