The importance of not concluding too quickly

With time I appreciate the feedback given by my examiners more and more. Initially it made me uncomfortable because people disagreed with my way of thinking and it meant I had a lot of re-thinking and re-writing to do. But today, I see that if not for their words pointing me to works done by other authors who show alternative perspectives to the ones I was pursuing, I would have been kept in the dark how restrictive and limited my own views were.

When I was reading the works of some scholars on critical thinking, I was amazed and wowed by them and very quickly incorporated what they had said and done into my thesis. But today, I have read a rebuttal to these points of view.