Learning logic and acquiring the ability to think critically is not easy, though not impossibly difficult. I learned how to do these things by reading and "digesting" the works of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand. To get started on the proper, methodical path read her books of explicit philosophic essays "Philosophy: Who Needs, It?" -- especially the "Introduction" and the first two chapters -- and "The Romantic Manifesto" -- especially the second chapter, "Philosophy and Sense of Life". After reading and re-reading the first couple of chapters from each of those books, put them aside for a while and read her two epochally great novels -- The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, in that respective order. Just as is true with any other context of knowledge, philosophy must be studied in a logically structured order…