Actively ask yourself, What do I actually think? Regardless of others’ opinions, what do I think? If I wasn’t worried about consequences, what would I do? How would I explain my reasoning?

but they didn’t arrive there by trying to be different from their peers. Instead, acting like an investigator led Mike to make decisions based on his own situation rather than the conventional wisdom of his space. Those details led him to something far different than the general thinking because he wasn’t focused on generalities.