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No external entity has more right to direct your thinking than you do. Self-authority is the recognition that you — not your culture, your employer, your algorithms, or your defaults — are the legitimate governing agent of your own cognitive infrastructure.
With the authority to direct your own thinking comes the responsibility for the quality and consequences of that thinking.
Thinking for yourself is socially costly. It creates friction with groups who expect conformity. The discomfort is not a sign you are wrong — it is the price of cognitive sovereignty.