A compass becomes useless when pride keeps insisting north should move.

Direction only helps if you accept its answer, and pride will argue with the answer rather than change course. It feels like conviction from the inside, this insistence that the reading must be wrong, and it lets you continue confidently in exactly the direction you did not want.

When a reliable source tells you something you dislike, notice the impulse to dispute the source. Give it a day before you argue. If the reading has been right before, the disagreement is probably yours.