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Testing your beliefs against reality is the core practice of intellectual integrity. Epistemic honesty is not a personality trait — it is a discipline you build by systematically subjecting your schemas to evidence, welcoming disconfirmation, and refusing to protect comfortable models from uncomfortable data.
The willingness to look directly at your contradictions is the hallmark of serious thinking.
With the authority to direct your own thinking comes the responsibility for the quality and consequences of that thinking.