No growth without demolition

You think of learning as accumulation, but that’s only half the story. Learning also requires unlearning. Ideas you once nurtured must be uprooted and discarded. There is no growth without demolition.

Each version of yourself demands the death of a previous one. Learning isn’t only about baby’s first steps; it’s putting grandpa on an ice floe and casting him off to sea.

You believe you’re constructing a perfect cathedral of knowledge, but you are building sandcastles, over and over. The structures themselves matter less than the architect you become.

Everything you once knew will rot under the hot light of new truth. Their replacements will too. As long as you keep learning, you will learn that you were wrong about everything.