Learn How to Think
Everything you’ve learned so far comes from someone telling you how to feel and what to think. If you want to become intelligent, you have to admit that you don’t know anything or that what you know is probably wrong.
Avoid blindly following beliefs and learn to question. Wrong beliefs make you stupid; it’s the right ones that set you free.
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