Conspiracy theories thrive within groups who feel that they don’t have control over their lives.

Boundaries give life structure, which makes us comfortable. But they can also be shifted, rethought, reframed, and reorganized.

Liminal thinking is the art of creating change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs.

People rarely test ideas for external validity when they don’t have internal coherence.

Many beliefs are embedded in habitual routines that run on autopilot. Disrupt the routine to create new possibilities.

A belief that is deeply tied to identity and feelings of self-worth is called a governing belief.

Most boundaries are convenient fictions.

You can test beliefs even if you don’t believe they are true. All you need to do is act as if they were true and see what happens. If you find something that works, do more of it.

Each blind man has a grip on one aspect of reality, but none of them holds the whole truth. Each man’s picture of the elephant is constrained by the boundaries of his own experience.