Of course, it is good to develop good critical thinking skills, which largely would mean that we need to be able to sort better kinds of information from worse kinds of information, so many statements will have facts, logic (analysis) and conclusions (opinions), so we can question the sources of information in regards to any of those whether they are providing good facts, logic and/or conclusions.. and so when we are new to a topic, we might have more difficulties figuring out if the facts are being described correctly, sometimes, we will have to learn skills to be able to determine if the logic is sound and if they logic leads to the conclusions that are reached.
There is a famous saying "
give a man a fish you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.". Likewise, if we start thinking from our own brain then it might take some time to develop good critical thinking skills but once they are developed they will be with us for life. There is no use of following other advice or signalling group.
Surely, I am not suggesting to NOT follow the advice of others or even to be able to attempt to learn from people of differing perspectives, and some people are very smart in some ways that differ from our own, and sometimes we understand other people and sometimes we do don't.
There should be some lines of progression since when we are younger we are more likely needing more guidance and counseling but some folks advance more quickly than others in terms of their critical thinking skills....
Yes indeed since suggestions given might not work to us since we have different level of patience and understandings on how things works that's why its never good to us to follow someones advice since we might just get disappointed with the result that will show to us. Much better if we just get an idea base on what people discussing about especially here since from that we can develop something important to use on taking decision especially for what we like to do on our acquired bitcoins.
Also not everyone is open for a lot of informations since some are just so lazy to check for another source so they could find good information that's why they always got stuck and get slow progress since they only follow those advices coming from single person they are following. That's why as you said critical thinking is really important so that we can figure out immediately if something is really working for us or not.