9V: Ways of thinking

Critical Thinking: the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.

I think critical thinking means to not only think outside the box but to dig deeper into something.  The answer to a question or problem sometimes needs some extra thinking.  Critical thinking also deals with judging the true value of a statement, and going in depth to seek errors. 

Another way of thinking is literal thinking. This means limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; conforming or limited to the simplest or most obvious meaning of a word or words.  A person who is a literal thinker takes every single word for what it actually means. This week I also learned the definition of the word Anecdote.  I have heard the word used in my English classes before but I never actually knew the real meaning of it.  Now I know that an Anecdote is a short story about a specific event.  Most anecdotes are usually short narratives of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident.