Keep asking why until all assumptions, social conditioning, and surface Level reasoning fade

When you keep recursively drilling into why you believe something, or what a concept actually means to you, you naturally strip away inherited assumptions, social conditioning, and surface-level reasoning. It is what first principles thinking demands.

If you are a domain expert on the subject you’re asking about, you can answer right away. If you don’t know the answer, or aren’t sure what the answer is and can only make assumptions, you can ask people who know about the thing and verify your assumptions.

This is also how you can verify the relationship between your feelings and thoughts by doing fractal journaling, because fractal journaling tames the wilderness of mind.