The coherence check: the elenchus turned on yourself

In his conversations, Socrates started from his interlocutor's opinions and pushed them to contradiction, the elenchus. Lacking a Socrates at hand, you can turn that questioning on yourself: take one of your firm convictions and look, among your own beliefs, for the one that belies it. This is the solitary form of the examined life, not to reassure yourself, but to flush out your inconsistencies and think more truly.