Characteristics of a Critical thinker

A time when I had to be a critical thinker was in high school. I had to write a personal statement for college. The teacher gave out examples of some stories that people in the past mostly used. For example, some previous students used topics about a loved one dying and how that changed their life, how their environment affected them and just a lot of powerful stories that impacted their lives. This was hard for me because a lot of traumatic things like such did not happen to me so I thought that my essay wouldn't be good enough. I had to critically think and brain storm ideas to write, so that I could have a good paper. It took me a couple of days to gather my thoughts but it finally came to me to write about myself. I informed the reader on my strive for success and talked about my leadership skills. I have the role of being the oldest so I had to set a good example. Furthermore, I was being a critical thinker when I thought about my personal statement.