Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.