How to Integrate Your Beliefs

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When you don't know very much, you should just adopt whatever your tribe's beliefs are because your tribe knows more than you do. So when you first enter a new level, you just adopt the tribe's belief, right? And then, uh, then you switch to the individualistic phase, which in order to break out of that tribe to get to a higher level tribe, you have to start thinking for yourself. You can think of like who's God at different levels. Like parents are your first God and then the next God is Santa or sky father. If we throw away these other systems, then we're losing a lot. The keys to integrate all the wisdom.

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