If I spent several weeks preparing an essay and received a grade I didn't agree with, LOI could help me see beyond the emotionalism and think critically about the feedback. At age fifty-two, I am still only a beginning student of critical thinking. I have used, simply put, some of the principles from my professional and personal life. This week's reading helped me formulate some of the processes and attitudes I have practiced for over forty years. Borrowing from van Gelder a second time, CT requires skills that are the natural outcome of practice in our quest to understand belief, truth, and accuracy. CT is moving away from allowing beliefs to dictate evaluation and to allowing evaluation of evidence to determine beliefs. (2004). CT can be as simple as “think before you act” and as complex as accepting an entirely new belief