Critical Thinking Barrier

Barriers to critical thinking

The first barrier that influences my thinking would be, Credibility having to be raised with parents that underestimate the importance of honesty has actually affected and affect my critical of thinking. Growing up in this environment was hard for me because I learn to think like my parents. As a child, I used to think that everything other kids told me was not true and I couldn’t trust them. As I got older, it became an issue in my personal life, believing, and trusting adults took a total of me. When someone come to me and ask me to do something I would make sure that I went to the higher boss, to make sure what I was told to do was credible. I have learned to have some credibility with some close friends and family but always making sure that there is credibility to the story.
My third barrier would be laziness. Laziness has influence my thinking in a way of making me think that I don’t do things because I’m lazy, I have to learn to know the power in myself and overcome my laziness in my life, as a child I was always told that I was lazy from my teachers, my third grade teacher would always hit me in my head and tell me that I was lazy, so that stayed in my mind and made me think that I was lazy. But now as an adult I do my best to try not to think that I’m