Taking a stance is easy. You instinctively take a stance on something where your personal life is involved, or identity is threatened. Often you come to an opinion because of an emotional or instinctive reaction. Rarely do you arrive at an opinion via clear understanding. And to understand, you have to invest time or rather give time. Taking a quick stance is often the result of lack of understanding or conditioning of the mind.
Anything that you want to understand, you should look at it from both sides.
If you think lockdown in pandemic is a solution, study the data from countries where it was not imposed, such as Sweden.
If you think vaccination is the only solution, study the data from countries where the majority of the population is vaccinated, such as Israel.
If you think Bitcoin is a scam, read people who are in favour of them. Read Bitcoin Whitepaper. Educate yourself.
If you think Vegan lifestyle is healthy, speak to perfectly healthy people who have been eating meat all their life.
Anything you strongly believe, take the opposite of it and dive deep into it.
Question your beliefs. Hold them but arrive at them through understanding.
The process of understanding leads to two scenarios.
1. You may experience cognitive dissonance which is a conflicted state where you are even more confused. But if you experience this, you still come to realize that your original stance is not true in its entirety.
2. You may arrive at a clear understanding where your original stance may be correct. Or it may be entirely wrong.
In either case, you arrive at an opinion with clarity and confidence.
With that said, the ultimate understanding is this,
Any belief that you hold, cannot serve you forever.
