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What does it mean?
Intellectual growth requires destroying old ideas to make space for new, more spacious ones.
In plain terms
Kill old ideas to free God in new ones.
What can you take from it?
Progress demands rejecting rigid concepts.

Where it applies

  • academic study
  • creative work
  • personal development

Putting it to work

  • challenge assumptions
  • learn constantly
  • avoid dogma

Questions to consider

  • What idea must you kill?
  • How do you grow intellectually?

Another view

It may undervalue established knowledge.

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