“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” To escape those old ideas, think of yourself as an anthropologist with your own life as your topic of study. Anthropology requires “the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.”
