2017年2月11日，希望能够每天通过简书输出一些当天阅读、总结的东西，包括中文的、英文的、整段文字、一个句子、一个句型、甚至是一个作文题目的提纲、一个透彻的论证思路等等。希望能与大家一起交流、共同成长，如果成长做不到最起码希望能够督促自己每天主动去阅读且输出。如果自己能够再幸运一点的话，希望得到前辈的指点（真心求拍砖！）。祝愿社交化的学习能让我们彼此成长，长成我们期待的样子。

DAY12

We don't have to employ our minds to feel angry when we are insulted, afraid when we are threatened, or compassionate when we see a picture of a starving child. The feelings arise automatically.

Feeling is useful in directing our attention to matters we should think about; it also can provide the enthusiasm and commitment necessary to complete arduous mental tasks. However, feeling is never a good substitute for thinking because it is notoriously unreliable.

and a single surrender to feeling forever stained the brilliant career Zidane had dedicated his life to building.

Whereas feeling has no purpose beyond expressing itself, thinking aims beyond itself to knowledge or action.

Yet for all its shortcomings, thinking is the most reliable guide to action we humans possess. To sum up the relationship between feeling and thinking, feelings need to be tested before being trusted, and thinking is the most reasonable and reliable way to test them.

The essence of critical thinking is evaluation. Critical thinking, therefore, may be defined as the process by which we test claims and arguments and determine which have merit and which do not.

In other words, critical thinking is a search for answers, a quest. Not surprisingly, one of the most important techniques used in critical thinking is asking probing questions. Where the uncritical accept their first thoughts and other people's statements at face value, critical thinkers challenge all ideas in this manner: ...sskk