Turn to face your beliefs, then throw rocks at them
Turning to face your beliefs is the first step, because it requires you to remember that A belief is a degree of certainty and You are not stuck with your beliefs.
The more difficult changing your beliefs are, the more diligent you have to be at throwing rocks at them, since you will need to work against to defend yourself from Inconvenience Bias.
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As opposed to thinking alone, writing allows us to distance ourselves from our ideas, in turn allowing us to assess them better ( Turn to face your beliefs, then throw rocks at them). Using written language allows for an idea to be stabilized and scrutinized clearly. In the act of writing, what in the mind may have been a large nebulous idea might end up becoming multiple more clear and concise ideas.
“John Kenneth Galbraith said: “Faced with the choice of changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”1 And the greater the inconvenience of changing one’s mind, the more effort people will expend on the proof.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Turn to face your beliefs, then throw rocks at them
“You cannot rely on anyone else to argue you out of your mistakes; you cannot rely on anyone else to save you; you and only you are obligated to find the flaws in your positions; if you put that burden down, don’t expect anyone else to pick it up. And I wonder if that advice will turn out not to help most people, until they’ve personally blown off their own foot, saying to themselves all the while, correctly, “Clearly I’m winning this argument.”” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
“You cannot rely on anyone else to argue you out of your mistakes; you cannot rely on anyone else to save you; you and only you are obligated to find the flaws in your positions; if you put that burden down, don’t expect anyone else to pick it up. And I wonder if that advice will turn out not to help most people, until they’ve personally blown off their own foot, saying to themselves all the while, correctly, “Clearly I’m winning this argument.”” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
“John Kenneth Galbraith said: “Faced with the choice of changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”1 And the greater the inconvenience of changing one’s mind, the more effort people will expend on the proof.” (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationality)
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Turn to face your beliefs, then throw rocks at them