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Tim Minchin said it well when he said to be hard on and critical of your own opinions. Among many other things :P

https://www.timminchin.com/2013/09/25/occasional-address/

I guess recognizing when you're desiring a certain outcome so much you put blinders on to contradicting evidence

my method is to constantly try and prove my beliefs wrong, via the "oscillating" I describe in the piece

Yeah, I sort of have a counter-belief that, generally speaking the way to have the most.... Grounded understanding of everything is to be a bit dispassionate about whether or not you have the truth. Being truth seeking has probably a 80/20 chance of going conspiracy nut vs actually being honestly truth seeking. Especially if you're not trained or the subject isn't in your wheel house.

yeah this is a very real risk

we may not be wired by default to include unknown unknowns in our decision making, even when we manage to include known unknowns :p