The Way does not mourn the paths untaken, but knows they were part of the choice. To walk one road is to leave behind a thousand others—not with sorrow, but with clarity. What is not chosen still shapes the meaning of what is. The sage sees the unseen cost, not as a burden, but as the shadow that gives form to light. Without the paths untaken, the one you walk would hold no shape

Water does not think about how to flow - it just moves, and in moving, it finds its course.

The fact which we must face is that nearly all of us come to the study of economics with very strong views on subjects which we do not understand. And even if we make a show of being detached and ready to learn, I am afraid it is almost always with a mental reser­vation, with an inward determination to prove that our instincts were right and that nothing we learn can change our basic convictions. Though I am verging dangerously on preaching, let me nevertheless implore you to make a determined effort to achieve that intellectual humility which alone helps one to learn. Nothing is more perni­cious to intellectual honesty than pride in not having changed one’s opinions – particularly if, as is usually the case in our field, these are opinions which in the circles in which we move are regarded as ‘progressive’ or ‘advanced’ or just modern. You will soon enough discover that what you regard as specially advanced opinions are just the opinions dominant in your particular generation and that it requires much greater strength and independence of mind to take a critical view of what you have been taught to be progressive than merely to accept them. - Friedrich A. Hayek https://share.google/OaWy8pK1ajKe0XQx9