A long time ago, when I used to go to seminars that were supposed to increase knowledge, ability & just general professionalism, I experienced on a couple of occasions an exercise where a story was given to one person, who then passed that story to the person next to him.
The participants were sat in a circle and by the time the story had got back to the originator of that story, it bore very little resemblance to the original story.
On one occasion each person in the circle told a story to the person on his left, by the time each of these stories returned to the original teller it bore no resemblance at all to the original.
I guess I did learn something from this:- do not issue instructions, or comments, or advice or anything, verbally. Put it in writing.
In respect of much of the knowledge or belief that is relevant to our own studies, we are often dealing with verbal traditions. We need to look very hard at some of that "knowledge", but perhaps not quite so hard at belief.
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