in order to thrive

In order to survive, we have to apply what we have learned from experience. But it is equally true that in order to thrive - in order to stay alive - we have to overcome what we have previously learned. If we don't somehow get rescued from our assumptions about life, they devour us.  Rescue involves recognising that the assumptions we so stubbornly cling to as truths are, in fact, decisions we have made about what "should be true" based on past experiences.

~ Brad Blanton, Radical Honesty