requires flexibility – ability to recognize your own a priori or beliefs, or that your views can be wrong, and be able to suspend them/alter judgement in the face of new information, facts(3)

Mentioned by 3 participants, including: critical thinking involves suspending your own personal a priori or beliefs in order to perform an objective analysis (x1), it requires flexibility, i.e. an ability to alter judgements in the face of new information (x1), the ability to recognize that your views can be wrong, and to always stay open to change them as new facts appear (x1).