What I choose from greatly depends on which choices I made in the past. I have developed a quite unique style searching for truth. It is best illustrated by my approach to museums. Most of people start at the beginning and keep slowly going through expositions until they run out of time. More advanced people plan ahead, sign up for guided tours and are shown best of best with explanations.
When I grew up, I have been lucky to be exposed to very large museums of Russia: Hermitage and Tretyakov Gallery. These were so huge, that even in several visits it is not possible to see the whole exposition. I also don't like guided tours, these are often of poor quality and too slow to my taste. I need to mention that my attention span is short, way shorter than of other humans. The intensity of my experience is high, but I run out of steam way quicker than others. In guided tours I feel imprisoned; I just can not listen to most of the tours for the full time. So my approach is to move fast, stopping only by few paintings which attract my attention. While people move slowly from one painting to another, I literally perform scientific screening of the museum collection. I develop a set of criteria which allow me to capture the paintings which I like and I screen for those. For example, I like impressionists and psychological portraits. I would go pretty fast glancing over many paintings and stopping only at those which look impressionistic at first glance or which look like psychological portraits. This may seem to you like a logical approach, but surprisingly, I almost never meet people moving through museums with my speed. This signifies that they are very rare. I do the same with literature search. In the past, when computerized search was not available, I visited large libraries and book stores, and screened the books using an optimization technique - I sampled the books in different departments and narrowed my search to the places which attracted me. Same I do with the movies these days. I spend some days glancing over many tens of movies to pick few worth watching. Typically, I can tell whether I like the movie by looking at it for seconds. The quality of actors' play the graphical design, the sound and the text are all very revealing the nature of the movie even in few seconds of watching. Most people watch movies from the beginning to the end. These days, I am happy to watch the movies from the middle and randomly sampling different parts of each movie. Same search strategy I use in picking what to watch on YouTube. I browse hundreds of videos, watching each for under 3 seconds until I find something I find interesting. Same I do with books and music. Luckily Netflix offers electronic movies, Amazon and Google Books previews of the books and Last.fm offers exhaustive selection of world's music.
I have never met a person who uses a similar screening approach for research in movies, books and music. Of course I am aware of using this approach in genetic and drug screens. Not surprisingly I was involved in genetic screens as well.
My experience illustrates why humans trust guidance. Many are not keen on independent research. Many feel uncomfortable taking unguided path. Most start at the beginning and move along the path of least resistance until are forced to make choices.
Why would I choose a different approach? I think because I am somewhat different, because I have unique experience, because I see deception more clearly and because I choose to be more honest to myself. For example, many people are exposed to the information about aliens. For example, I speak about aliens to many people. At least I mention that I know much about the aliens. To me, as a scientist, it is the most important question ever. Other people find it uninteresting or unimportant. Most surprising for me are the people who have seen your ships and continue to ignore the question of the aliens altogether. To me, this seems illogical and shortsighted. I have never seen you or your ships in person, but I have seen enough of recordings and spoke to enough witnesses to be convinced that you are real.
I am pretty sure that there are people on Earth that think very much like I do - I just haven't met them in person, but I see their creative works. Not being able to communicate to them directly gives me feeling of loneliness and I am eager to meet people of my kind and ideals and join them in a meaningful team work. Many of lightworkers are independent thinkers and it would be great to meet more of them in person.