Well, you ā€œlearnā€ something, you are free to assign values and truths to what you have learned. Regarding ā€œfeelingsā€, you can let your reflexive (learned) biases take over or you can intentionally step back, lose your bias/es and look at facts of events before reacting (lose the reflexive feelings). There is a phrase by Viktor Frankl — ā€œBetween the stimulus and response, there is a space. And in that space lies our freedom and power to choose our responses. In our response lies our growth and our freedomā€. (Although honestly I think the phrase was erroneously credited to him but the point of the phrase remains — I could not find it in his book ā€˜Man’s Search for Meaning’)

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Very nice explanations. Thank you. The word blank is very clear. šŸ«‚šŸ¤—

No, the pleasure is mine. Thank you for the thought exercise.