Why I read articles that I don’t agree with
To see who’s wrong
I followed a few writers here who had displayed critical thinking skills and provided valuable materials and unparalleled thought processes.

But there are also others that I read, sometimes when their headline is clearly against my belief (meaning, odds are they drew the wrong conclusions).

The main reason I do that is because sometimes, I want to know it there’s anything I’m missing that I could be proven won’t. But mostly, I find myself questioning their intelligence. And I found that most people are easily misled. And especially so if their materials came from supposedly authoritative figures in the interest concerned.

But almost a year back, I stopped reading an entire genre of articles: self-help.

Why?

What I realised is that self-help articles are mainly repeated ideas worded differently. And most came from the same source (usually from a published book). What disgusted me the most are fake “personal experiences". I’ve once followed a top earning writer and read a lot of his articles, but one day, I found that he has conjured up fake stories about himself where what happened between 2 articles can never happen at the same time to the same person. And then I read one article with him encouraging plagiarism if only because “it’s hard to prove and even costlier for the original author to claim copyright.”

Almost, most articles here simply sucks because they either don’t do their own thinking and provide valuable analysis, or they just repeat news or translate YouTube videos to text.