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Ideas are living things. We build relationships with them over the course of our lives. They find us at the right moment, revealing themselves to us in such a way that we feel we’re the first person to have discovered them. From our first meeting with an idea, it changes us, altering the internal landscape of our mind so that the lens through which we view the world is never the same. Upon our subsequent meetings, we find that our journey through life has changed our relationship with the idea, either confirming our previous conclusion or rendering it in need of reconstruction. In either case, each meeting creates a sense of right-ness. A sense that our interaction with the idea has guided us closer to truth. We have shaped the idea and it has shaped us.