<p>With the abundance of information available, politicians necessarily need to choose which information to pay attention to and which to ignore. Ideally, politicians would navigate through this information environment with an open mindset, considering not only information that confirms their pre-existing views but also information that challenges them. Therefore, this paper examines why and how top politicians seek out information that challenges their own attitudes. Specifically, we draw on in-depth face-to-face interviews with eighteen top politicians—party leaders and ministers—in Belgium (Flanders) in which we asked about their motivations and strategies for consulting information that goes against their prior opinions. From their reflections, we learn that top politicians’ information-seeking behavior is primarily driven by vote-seeking motivations. Top politicians actively look for counter-attitudinal information, especially counter-attitudinal public opinion information, to understand the perspectives of citizens who disagree with their policies. This helps them craft more persuasive communication strategies. Furthermore, by learning about other parties’ positions and the rationale behind these positions, top politicians gather valuable insights that enable them to better defend their positions in political debates. Perhaps surprisingly, the interviewed party leaders and ministers only occasionally reporting seeking out attitude-incongruent <i>policy</i> information from experts or interest groups that contradicts their views, suggesting that policy motivations are guiding politicians’ attitude-incongruent information-seeking behavior to a much lesser extent.</p>