1.) critical thinking using the authors’ terms/words is “grounding one’s beliefs and evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis.” My explanation of critical thing is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. the authors sees as impediments to critical thinking on campuses today is offensiveness like when having a discussion and someone says something offensive. Lastly, is freedom of speech. It shouldn’t matter what someone says if its based off their own opinion they have the right to say whatever they want.

3.) The author thinks that fortune telling is a way of anticipating that something is gonna happen before it actually does. They think that a trigger warning is a warning for someone who may have had a bad experience in their past, and they could have had a flash back. Some quotes from this passage that have to do with this are “The idea that words (or smells or any sensory input) can trigger searing memories of past trauma—and intense fear that it may be repeated—has been around at least since World War I, when psychiatrists began treating soldiers for what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder.” and “Burns defines fortune-telling as “anticipating that things will turn out badly” and feeling “convinced that your prediction is an already-established fact.” Leahy, Holland, and McGinn define it as “predict[ing] the future negatively” or seeing potential danger in an everyday situation.” I have to say though the last quote I completely disagree with because you honestly don’t know what kind of future is coming with a fortune teller because they can’t quite tell you.