Free Thinker Confession: “I Outsourced My Mind.”

Do you do your thinking in house or do you outsource it to other people? I used to outsource my thoughts. I let other people think for me. That was a mistake. So I took back control of my mind. I became a free thinker.

A free thinker is committed to knowing and understanding what’s true. Free thinkers don’t accept or reject claims without looking into the reasons behind them. They recognize the biases that affect human thinking, including their own. They withhold judgement until they look into the reasons both for and against a claim, and if those reasons aren’t enough to convince them either way, they continue to withhold judgement.

My journey to become a free thinker started with the 2020 US presidential election.

I spent a lot of time speculating how the Presidential election would end. I followed the coverage on CNN, National Public Radio, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, and had countless political talks with friends and family.

Every outlet that I watched made me believe that everyone in the US was thinking the same thing: Biden was going to win in a landslide.

In the end, the election results were close to 50/50. I was wrong, and apparently the media sources I was listening to were wrong as well.