Not only that, but you are not your arguments. YOU are not wrong or right, a statement is. The mistake is that of identifying with one’s arguments or opinions as part of some social game. Some statements turn out to be more or less accurate than others, but that is ultimately not a personal matter.
What I like to do is form ideas/arguments/opinions/views as lists. This plurality makes it really easy to avoid identifying with a pet theory, or being polarized between two options (which humans seem very susceptible to). So, for instance, getting myself to pick a number of explanations or models, six, or ten, or whatever. It seems completely unnatural, but with some discipline, most anyone can do it. Unfortunately, it works better solo than in everyday conversation with others who are already attached to a position, or lack the patience to consider varied options.
