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Once you become convinced that you have come upon a profound truth it is natural to mobilize in favor of that truth, to speak in favor of that truth at every opportunity, to proselytize on behalf of that truth, regardless of whether that perceived truth corresponds to actual reality at all. Belief is integral to action. We all have a story about the world that we tell ourselves. That story that we tell is generated by the interplay of our own experiences and our own genome. Our actions are predicated on our story; our story births our actions. So, the best way to expose your story to refinements and necessary corrections is to expose yourself to a wide array of experience. This is necessary to spotting errors in your own thinking and to provoking corrections to your own story. This process, therefore, causes the refinement of our truth. So, in the recognition of this process, we now know that it is more honest and modest to declare our truth as provisional. Learning means adapting your picture of the world to fit experience. Learning is the act of questioning all assumptions to test their veracity. And so ignorant people are not defective or unintelligent, only narrow in their experience, narrow in their learning.