Always play devil’s advocate, and really try to destroy your position?
Whenever you argue, make a point to look up information regarding your argument and if you find that you were mistaken about it immediately let the other person know that you were wrong about it. The more certain you are about the information, the easier it should be to look up.
Think about who you know that would argue against your position, and how they would do it, and make sure that their (hypothetical) argument doesn’t apply.
Make sure the null hypothesis 1) makes sense, and 2) isn’t right.
Don’t view an argument as a chance to be right. View it as an attempt to find facts or a useful model, or as John Maxwell IV says in another comment:
remembering that a purpose of engaging in argument is to update your map
I’m not sure how many of these things you can do reflexively, but I do look up facts as I argue, and I find that I am frequently wrong. I try not to care about being right as much as finding out something useful.
Always play devil’s advocate, and really try to destroy your position?
Whenever you argue, make a point to look up information regarding your argument and if you find that you were mistaken about it immediately let the other person know that you were wrong about it. The more certain you are about the information, the easier it should be to look up.
Think about who you know that would argue against your position, and how they would do it, and make sure that their (hypothetical) argument doesn’t apply.
Make sure the null hypothesis 1) makes sense, and 2) isn’t right.
Don’t view an argument as a chance to be right. View it as an attempt to find facts or a useful model, or as John Maxwell IV says in another comment:
I’m not sure how many of these things you can do reflexively, but I do look up facts as I argue, and I find that I am frequently wrong. I try not to care about being right as much as finding out something useful.
Edit—please disregard this post