It is my own recognition that I will not be correct or make right decisions that leads me towards faith in long-term knowledge building: on any given day I will

It is my own recognition that I will not be correct or make right decisions that leads me towards faith in long-term knowledge building: on any given day I will most likely make a bad decision, but in the aggregate of many days, like any other practiced skill, I will be able to recognize mistakes, correct course, and develop a way to "practice out" or "systematize out" a bad habit. And so I study history...