The process of my learning experience:

I intend on writing my first essay about my educational experience of learning to form ideas and beliefs and to substantiate my beliefs with logic and rationality rather than with emotions. The process mostly started with cognitive dissonance - the feeling of holding two conflicting ideas. The discomfort of cognitive dissonance came from holding beliefs or having ideas which I could not support - there was a lack of clear, rational and logical thought behind what I believed. There were ideas I held where, despite being something I may have felt strongly about, I simply could not back up. If I had to argue for my stance or belief, I could not hope to win. The feeling of cognitive dissonance led to questioning my stances on everything, and analyzing it with logic and rationality. Ultimately, my learning experience progressed to me being able to back up, support, articulate, and argue anything which I believe firmly without faith or emotions.