I had a bit of a breakthrough with my younger brother this weekend. We have had numerous disagreements on topics (Covid, President Trump, etc.) in the past. He has said that I have repeatedly told him to "do his own research" and that was not a valid argument.

We are both big NBA fans and I used this as an example to illustrate what I meant when I said "do your own research."

The NBA draft is coming up next week and we started talking about it. How we felt about a couple different guys in the draft, team needs, etc. I asked him how do you form your opinion on a specific player. Do you just "trust the experts (Chad Ford, Marc Stein, etc.)" by reading mock drafts, player profiles, etc? He said, yeah I read the mock drafts, player profiles, etc. from the "experts" but I will normally pull YouTube clips to watch the player and form my own opinion.

I said that is what I mean by "do your own research."

You could have blindly accepted what the "experts" tell you about a specific player and regurgitated their opinions. Instead, you decided to "do your own research" and form your own opinion. This is no different than Covid, etc.

He said he now understand what I mean by "do your own research."

I thought this example might help some of you get through to others.