When I was 35, I started work in a Japanese company. A friend there told me this on my first day. "If you are going to be successful here, you have to unlearn everything you think you know. I'll give you an example. Our logo is red. In the USA, red means stop, or danger. In Asia, it means a party. In this company, you are part of a red parade, and there is nothing you knew that can help you find your place in it. That will be done for you. When you started here, you gave up everything you knew. You are a like a baby that needs bottle feeding to us. Don't make it more difficult for yourself by thinking you know what is right better than others decide is right for you." That is how philosophy really works. Do not think you know an answer because you imagined it. Lots of people have been imagining answers a long time. When you understand their answers, rather than think of your own, that is when you are truly a philosopher. The more philosophers in history you can understand, the better a philosopher you become. Have a milk bottle and take your place in line.