Deng xiao ping: you don't need to engage in debates, just go ahead. Just seek truth from facts.
Charles Darwin was obliged to write down something that contradicted his cherished conclusion within 30 minutes. Otherwise his mind would work to reject the discordant information, much as the body rejects the transplants.
Invert arguments to guard against first conclusion bias, our nature to convince ourselves of what we purport to know.
You got to have multiple models to not torture reality so that it fits your models.
Nothing sedates rationality (and reasoning), like large doses of effortless money. Buffett
The colorful Charlie Munger,"if you need one mantra, it is from Lee, find out what works and do more of it."
(Charlie and Warren talked about seeing how other people behave. Try to understand from them to find out what does not work. Warren Buffett gave interesting detail of when he was in his 20s, he was in Las Vegas. And there was no airplanes and easy roads at that time. people would spend so much time and money to get to Las Vegas and then because of lack of understanding of numbers and probabilities, would play the games again and again because of dreams and impulsiveness. He told his wife, "look how people behave, i know i am going to be wealthy." he does the opposite of what does not work.)