Question

The first guideline in critical thinking is to be curious and ask questions. once you've raised a general question, the next step is to:

Answer 1

The next step is to DEFINE YOUR TERMS. Then find an appropriate and satisfying answer that would be meaningful enough to match the question, not just making any useless and unmeaning answer match the aroused question anyhow. After getting an appropriate answer, I'd move on to research more things on the subject which I'm working on now.