Critical thinking is not easy
If critical thinking was easy, everyone would have done it and fake news and wild claims would have been the stuff of science fiction. Or horror.
But it is not.
You are not born with it though. (Most probably). You have to develop it. Just like you develop and strengthen muscles by regular exercise, we can develop our critical thinking. And it gets easier with time similar to the exercise effect.
When we start doing exercise in any manner, we are weak and lifting up a light weight, say 5kg, in bench press is hard. But over a year, we become stronger and find about 20kg of weight hard. Now lifting 5kg is easy for you.
The same way, over time, avoiding stupid comes becomes easy for you. You become a seeker of truth, the whole raw version of it, not the one that comforts you the most.
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