How to Get Better at Critical, Deep Thinking

If you're not interested in making a go at being the next malcolm gladwell, you can still get a lot out of reading some of the great books. There's a whole richness there, i think, that's open to just about everybody. I don't know that i have a lot of good advice for how to get better at the pragmatic deep thinking. Like a lot of mathematical types, pragmatic critical thinking is something that comes pretty natural to me. But when i need to think about a topic deeply, whether work related or life related, i find that i'm not particularly structured and somewhat haphazard.