What is next?

1. I always test my beliefs against proven facts.

2. I am aware of possible misleading messages from marketing, sale, and other sources trying to influence my decisions.

3. I constantly apply critical thinking tools and reinforce them with habits.

4. A reconstruction process takes place in the mind when bringing memories of past events, and it normally has flaws of the original events.

5. I am critical of my thinking, rationalizing what I believe happened or saw.

6. I am aware of possible thinking patterns and leading questions influencing my opinions and conclusions.

7. I like to analyze the information at hand while aware of rationalizing vs. reasoning thinking.

8. I use arguments as an opportunity to find factual errors, discover new premises, or flaws in the logic leading to a conclusion.

9. I exercise metacognition to verify my conclusions, deconstructing the facts and the logic that took me to them.

10. I manage probability with a clear understanding of the different results obtained from an independent event than from a dependent event.

11. I am accustomed to using external processes, like mathematics, to verify my thinking.

12. I understand we all humans have an inherited numbers cognitive weaknesses and that we compensate for them by learning skills like mathematics and statistics.

13. My decisions and opinions are from verifiable sources, independent of influential group dynamics.

14. I use evidence to figure out what is true, not to support what I think is true.

15. I try to prove my theories wrong, reinforcing and building a stronger theory.

16. I am attentive to the difference between science vs. pseudoscience.

17. It is natural to believe in conspiracy theories. It takes a critical mind to check facts, validate the source of information, and be aware of potential outside influential factors.

18. I aim to examine thought patterns, evidence, and the presumption of using scientific methodology to conduct a conspiracy theory.

19. I quickly identify people using denialism techniques to avoid unwanted consequences.

20. I can recognize when a charismatic leader wants to influence my life by manipulation,  trying to lower my defenses by showing unconditional ingroup acceptance and out of group rejection.