Early Conceding While Reading and Not Starting Discussions

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@Jarrod

Or try to write down one’s own version/paraphrase (without looking at the original article)

Elliot has recommended this in tutoring.

@Elliot

Read an article.

Wait one to four days.

Write an informal rough draft article of your own about the same topic. Try to write based on your own understanding of the topic and your own reasoning, not your memory of specifics that you read (like article organization or phrasing used).

I have tried another technique which is to write before hand what I think about a topic I’m going to read. See the drop-downs on Introduction to Critical Rationalism - #66 by ActiveMind. The purpose there is to see if I’ll write something that contradicts the article, then it would be easy to see disagreements and confusions.

I had intended to do a rewrite like Elliot suggested but I think I forgot.