You have fewer opinions of your own than you think

Try it: take a conviction you'd defend fiercely in an argument tomorrow and ask yourself honestly where it came from. You almost never reasoned it out from scratch. You inherited it from your family, copied it from someone you admire, or absorbed it from a feed without noticing.

This isn't an accusation: thinking everything through on your own is impossible, and trusting others is part of how a healthy mind works. The problem is mistaking the rented for the owned.

An inherited idea you examine becomes yours. An inherited idea you never look at governs you without your knowing it. The difference between thinking and repeating isn't having original ideas: it's having stopped, at least once, to ask “and why do I believe this?”.