You do what you can, really.
Like Siddhartha said, you just try to keep learning yourself, rethink some things, admit you were wrong in the past, if that be the case, and keep an open mind toward new ideas or ideas that go against your own.
I think everyone in life is pretty much "winging it." Some are just better at it than others. You do what you can and hope nobody gets a pencil in the eye
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