Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
We actively do 2 steps in order to adopt a value; we define and refine.
To define is to absorb a concept. To refine is to gather and add relatable data or to build up newer.
It's way too easy to refine than to define, hence you should be skeptic with your old definitions