08/10/2026
INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL REFERENCE OR BOTH?
Perhaps the answer isn’t choosing whether you are internally or externally referenced.
Perhaps it is learning to recognise when each can be useful.
Your own experience, judgement and values matter. So does information that exists outside your own experience.
The skill is knowing how to bring those things together gathering information without surrendering your judgement, and trusting yourself without becoming closed to information you don’t yet have.
Looking outside yourself can expand your understanding.
Looking within can help you decide what that understanding means for you.
That is where informed choice becomes more than simply having information.
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