I feel we are talking a bit past one another. I am not suggesting we cannot change, I mean my main premise is that change is the one thing we can count on. What I am suggesting is that our capacity for said change remains limited by our beliefs. William James used to argue that there are "live and dead" beliefs. Only those beliefs we have access to can be considered "live", that vast majority of beliefs remain forever beyond our scope.

Now this says nothing about the quality of any given belief--the belief's "cash value" as James called it--rather, it simply reminds us that we work within the limits of our beliefs. Why does that matter? In some ways it does not, in others is expands our cache of beliefs, and thus, our access to more and more "cash value".

I think steemit is going to like William James ;)