I find nonconformist thinking rather isolating and open-mindedness rather helpful, but it does sometimes invite naiveté. Therefore I like his advice to secretly

I find nonconformist thinking rather isolating and open-mindedness rather helpful, but it does sometimes invite naiveté. Therefore I like his advice to secretly think through if a statement is correct. But I suspect there is more than one kind of "thinking for yourself", because it's not always useful. Perhaps one has to think for himself BUT at the same time be very tuned in to what the others believe in order to have ideas that have potential?