What made you stop?
Which sentence deserves a second look?
Don't underline everything. Find the moment where something shifts, jars, surprises or refuses to fit.
What did you hear besides the words?
When does tone tell you more than vocabulary?
Listen for hesitation, certainty, emotion, emphasis and what a speaker carefully avoids saying.
Who wants you to believe this?
What earns your trust?
Ask who created it, for whom, why, with what evidence — and what would make you change your mind.
What's not here?
Whose voice is absent?
Sometimes the most useful information is the perspective, fact or question that never appears.
Could a reasonable person see this differently?
Try the strongest other reading.
Not because disagreement is automatically clever, but because your own view becomes stronger when it survives a fair challenge.
Close the laptop.
Can five minutes with another human change your mind?
Explain your view. Listen properly. Ask one real follow-up question. You may return with a different answer.