It all starts when you are born, molded by your parent's view of truth and untruth. Then if you have parents (like mine) who think going to school and getting a job is the great path, it is even more difficult to find your truer potential.
We had outcome-based education to indoctrinate and guide us into available and restricted bodies of knowledge.
So true and couldn't disagree. Then after home, you are shoved into the societal acceptable norms. To a fresh young mind it doesn't make sense but the fear of being shunned makes you accept it blindly and in faith.
I have a draft post on unschooling but can't seem to put it together.
For your q: input of contrasting/contradictory info that reveals more truth compared to previous information accepted as true but now appears false by comparison.
Read, alot?
Unless you find new ideas, you cant know what you dont know, nor that you dont know it.
Reading a lot - I do, when I do. But then you have to filter and reprocess, cross check with the reality you already have and others you can't verify set aside for later cross checking or pick them up again if you have a reality to verify it with.
How about you? What do you do with what you read and learn?
Ive been fortunate to have long periods with nothing better to do.
Ive boiled down decades of reading into some simple maxims.
This book: The Crowd by LeBon says that crowds dont rationalize, they react.
Affirmation, repetition, and contagion are the way to reach them, so i tend to do alot of the first two.
Keep working, stop paying!
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.
After reading your exchange, I very much recommend: