Coaching practices for I Notice My Certainty About Being Right Slams a Door Before Someone's View Can Even Reach Me the Instant Something Strikes Me as Wrong I Stop Listening and I Want to Hold What I Believe Loosely Enough That New Evidence and Other People Can Actually Get in
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I notice my certainty about being right slams a door before someone’s view can even reach me
- Once I’ve made up my mind, I notice I only ever see the evidence that proves me right and the rest just slides past me
- Once I believe something, I only ever notice the things that prove me right
- My opinions have somehow become who I am, so when someone pushes back it lands like a personal attack and I dig in
- I’m very confident about a few things I think are true, and I’ve noticed I don’t actually hold any of them loosely
Practices that may help
- Practice intellectual humility as a spiritual discipline
Hold your worldview lightly enough that new evidence can reach you.
The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical - Consider the opposite
Actively argue the case against your first conclusion before accepting it.
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable - Actively seek disconfirming evidence
Deliberately look for evidence that your current belief is wrong.
Superforecasting - Hold beliefs as estimates, not identity commitments
Treat each belief as a probability rather than a flag to plant.
The Scout Mindset - Practice intellectual humility: "I might be wrong"
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
The Socratic Method, Made Practical - Specify what would falsify your belief before you look at evidence
Write down what evidence would prove you wrong before you go looking.
Falsification Thinking - Deliberately seek out sources that disagree with you
For any important belief, find and read the best-regarded opposing view.
Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See - Examine the evidence for and against
Systematically list what supports your interpretation and what doesn’t — like a fair-minded lawyer, not a prosecutor.
Check the Facts, Made Practical - Slow the reflexive loop
Your current beliefs shape which data you select, reinforcing themselves — interrupt this loop deliberately.
The Ladder of Inference - Actively seek evidence that would prove you wrong
Ask what would change your mind — and then look for it.
The Scout Mindset
Related concerns
- When Falsification Thinking Specify The Falsifier
Write down what evidence would prove you wrong before you go looking.
Specify what would falsify your belief before you look at evidence
- When The Ladder Of Inference Slow The Reflexive Loop
Your current beliefs shape which data you select, reinforcing themselves — interrupt this loop deliberately.
Slow the reflexive loop
- When Bayesian Thinking Kill Your Hypothesis
Ask: "What would change my mind?" and then look for exactly that.
Actively seek evidence that would disconfirm your belief
- When Naive Realism Seek Disconfirming Information
Deliberately look for the best evidence against your current position before committing to it.
Actively seek information that disconfirms your view
- When Scout Mindset Seek Disconfirming Evidence
Ask what would change your mind — and then look for it.
Actively seek evidence that would prove you wrong
- Confirmation Bias Examples
Define what you’re looking for and what would count as evidence before starting your search.
Structure the analysis before searching for evidence
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