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Ideas evolve. Your system should let you see how any atom changed over time — not just what you believe now, but what you believed before and why it shifted.
Update the strength of your beliefs proportionally to the strength of new evidence.
Revising a model in response to evidence is the defining act of a strong thinker. The refusal to update is not confidence — it is cognitive debt accumulating interest.
Keep a record of how your major schemas have changed over time. Without a written log, you cannot distinguish genuine intellectual growth from retroactive rationalization. The evolution log is the infrastructure that makes belief revision visible, traceable, and honest.
Self-authority does not mean arrogance or certainty. The most powerful form of self-authority is the humble recognition that you are responsible for evaluating evidence and updating your beliefs — even when that means admitting you were wrong.