True growth happens when you step outside your comfort zone and embrace change.
Architecture is a profession that takes on the public realm, and in that sense it has to deal with the political.
"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.