Experience Is Your Learning Field

 All that we were taught, are told and read, or see on the evening news--all these sources of input should not be simply absorbed and accepted without analysis, even skepticism. Stephen Hicks instructs his students that there are no unassailable ideas. He is correct in that all ideas should be questioned, but they may well survive all scrutiny as proving too be correct, unassailable in that regard.

From your experience, generalize generously and extravagantly. Then test your hypotheses against reality, peer review and public push-back. This is how you get smarter, and the world gains an individuator, an original thinker, and all society benefits as the power of ideas grow and expand, the source of much of it being personal experience.