[sph]

Two oblique answers to a question that seems to betray rigid thinking patterns:

1. Learn to think. Stop regurgitating and repeating someone else's thought but sit and think very hard about things. There is no critical thought, there just is original thought or repeated ideas that are someone else's. Form ideas of your own.

2. Learn not to think. In the "meditation"/non-duality/Zen kind of sense. Thinking is giving names to things, which constrains you to apply names you already know to novel phenomenons, thus missing the forest for the trees. So learn not to think, but to observe reality as it is, unfiltered by your conditioning, education, biases, fallacies. Maybe then you'll notice what you always believed was a pipe, or what you were told is a pipe, truly isn't.

[truro]

Not thinking has never worked well.