It is more important than ever to acknowledge the wonderful freedom that comes with being intellectually flexible. When I was a kid, I was convinced  that I was going to go to the NBA. Not only that, but I was going to be the greatest left-handed basketball player that the league had ever seen (because for some reason I had the humility not to place myself along the likes of LeBron and Jordan, but would surely  be better than Russell, Harden, and Mullin). But as I grew up and began to gain...