During my graduate work at Queen’s, a fellow student told me the goal of any good school of Religion (or philosophy) is to break you down and force you to rebuild again.

I marveled at the accuracy of that statement because of its applicability to all facets of life.

Every time we need to re-invent ourselves, we need to break the myths about who we are in order to build again.

If we want a more mature understanding of something, it requires a shattering of what we think we know about it. Case in point, the first thing I do at the beginning of every Religion course is break every myth about what students think the Bible is… by tearing apart the myths in (and around) it.

As a writer, getting new words on a page and getting them out there continuously requires you to break many myths about how writing works.

Some tact is required.

Breaking a deeply held belief can shatter a person if they don’t have the proper supports to rebuild.

However, its worth doing because what you come back with is always stronger.