exploration

There are certain things that it's good to think about. It's good to think about goals and values. It's good to think about your direction in life because you are the only one who can think about that - it's ultimately your responsibility and yours alone. But the way we think about these things has to change and evolve.

Thinking is hard work. Your mind will always go in the direction it knows - the direction it has gone in the past - the habitual direction you have trained it to take. You can't really see places that you haven't been in your mind. You can't really grasp possibilities that are nothing like the possibilities you've already encountered. You can't learn new things unless there's some link to what you already know - you just won't understand them.