These are 9 strategies that any motivated person can use to develop as a thinker.

1. Use “Wasted” Time: All students waste time or fail to use their time productively. Sometimes we fail to plan well causing us negative consequences we could easily have avoided (for example, we spend time unnecessarily trapped in traffic — though we could have left a half hour earlier and avoided the rush). Sometimes we just stare off blankly into space. Spend that time, or at least part of it, thinking back over your day and evaluating your strengths and weaknesses. For example, you might ask yourself questions like these: When did I do my worst thinking today? When did I do my best? What in fact did I think about today? Did I figure anything out? Did I allow any negative thinking to frustrate me unnecessarily? 2. A Problem A Day: At the beginning of each day (perhaps driving to work or going to school) choose a problem to work on when you have free moments. Figure out the logic of the problem by identifying its elements. In other words, systematically think through the questions: What exactly is the problem? How can I put it into the form of a question. How does it relate to my goals, purposes, and needs? 3. Internalize Intellectual Standards: Each week, develop a heightened awareness of one of the universal intellectual standards (clarity, precision, accuracy, relevance E.T.C). Focus one week on clarity, the next on accuracy, etc. For example, if you are focusing on clarity for the week, try to notice when you are being unclear in communicating with others. Notice when others are unclear in what they are saying. 4. Keep An Intellectual Journal: Each week, write out a certain number of journal entries. 5. Reshape Your Character: Choose one intellectual trait---intellectual perseverance or courage E.T.C and then study yourself. 6. Deal with Your Ego: Egocentric thinking is found in the disposition in human nature to think with a subconscious bias in favor of oneself. On a daily basis, you can begin to observe your egocentric thinking in action and try to deal with it as soon as possible. 7. Redefine the Way You See Things:. We live in a world, both personal and social, in which every situation is “defined,” that is, given a meaning. How a situation is defined determines not only how we feel about it, but also how we act in it, and what implications it has for us. 8. Get in touch with your emotions: Whenever you feel some negative emotion, systematically ask yourself: What, exactly, is the thinking leading to this emotion? For example, if you are angry, ask yourself, what is the thinking that is making me angry? 9. Analyze group influences on your life: Closely analyze the behavior that is encouraged, and discouraged, in the groups to which you belong. Discover what pressure you are bowing to and think explicitly about whether or not to reject that pressure. In conclusion i want to say is that keep in mind the key point to keep in mind when devising strategies is that you are engaged in a personal experiment. You are testing ideas in your everyday life. You are integrating them, and building on them, in the light of your actual experience.