VER-XV-0050
“I'm so sure I'm right in this fight that I refuse to look at their side.”
Certainty feels like strength, but a position you won't even examine isn't conviction — it's a wall you've built so you don't have to look. The other side might be wrong. But you can't know that honestly until you've actually looked. Eyes open means risking that you're partly wrong, because that's the only way to be actually right.
Your Practice
- State the strongest honest version of their position — not the strawman, the real one. Out loud.
- Name one thing they might be right about, even a small one. Refusing to find it is the tell.
- Separate what you know from what you've just decided. Certainty is cheap; checked is rare.
- Go back to the conflict able to grant their valid point. That's not weakness — it's the only ground truth holds.