Great series of articles, I would to thank you for all the effort doing..
About this part I am going the Objectivist way:

You should always remember that there are no shortcuts in forming an opinion.

When someone, even someone whom you like & trust says that the things are just so, means only that the things are just so for them. For you, you have to make your own way from the facts to opinions.

Contradictions are unnatural — if you face a contradiction, it means that you made a mistake — back to the premises for you.

If you feel one thing, but think another — it’s the state of contradiction — back to previous sentence.