Thank you for this excellent addition to the conversation. I highlighted much.

Douglas Giles wrote recently about the logical fallacy of other people believing something making it accurate. https://medium.com/@dgilesphilosopher/the-most-pernicious-logical-fallacy-0d88550f2b75

Here's a quote that connects to one of your thoughts that I use often that I think you will appreciate:

“'When someone seeks,' said Siddhartha, 'then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.'”

― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

Hesse is my favorite and most my-mindset-impacting author. I quote him often in my essays and poem notes.