Creative thinkers are born with special powers of the imagination.

To improve your analytical thinking skills, practice with basic logic problems that require you to break apart the problem and examine the different parts to arrive at an answer.

Higher-order thinking skills are part of critical thinking because they involve breaking information apart, creating something new from the information, and assessing the information for reliability or usefulness.

Critical thinking means constantly having to evaluate every piece of information that you receive.

Someone who thinks critically takes information at its face value.