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How does one go about becoming more comfortable reading opposing views?

I happen to like philosophy a lot, but I'm too wrapped up in my own beliefs about things to be able to read much of it. I have a really bad habit of accepting whatever I read as being true while I'm reading it, and if it challenges my pre-held beliefs, I'm emotionally and mentally drained by it. I was wondering if there's any methods to "turn off" those beliefs temporarily to approach arguments more charitably and objectively, or if good philosophers are simply gifted with the ability to suspend their beliefs.

I apologize if this is a bad place to ask this question, I just think philosophers would have the best advice on this (if there's any to be given).
gpt
you're not going to get any special advice for something like this. what you're asking is: "how do i begin to think critically?" 

the only worthwhile answer is: by thinking critically more, probably. 
you're not really doing philosophy at all if you are reading others' arguments and 'believing' them, or ignoring others' arguments because you want to believe what you already do. you're just putting stuff in your head. try challenging the authors' opinions and your own. attempt to provide counter-arguments. don't read something and let it blindly affect your views and don't let your biases affect your views. a really great pertinent quote by schopenhauer: "“Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.”"

at the end of the day, you can decide whether or not you want to pursue truth or not. being a critical thinker takes some practice because we don't think like that automatically.