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When a thought lands hard, ask whether you know it for certain, and what you would actually put forward if you had to make the case. Then go looking for the bits that point the other way.

Do this once you have settled a little, not in the worst of it, or the questions become another way of arguing with yourself. Write the answers down if you can, because a thought that stays in your head keeps the authority it arrived with. Very often the evidence for turns out thinner than it felt, and the evidence against was there the whole time and simply never got counted.

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