Evaluate your beliefs first and then arrive at your emotions. Let yourself say: “If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky, Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Source: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/virtues

From his Twelve Virtues of Rationality.

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