| Open-Minded

• 1.

  Being truly open-minded, means having the capacity to allow a new idea or perspective to enter our understanding, without believing that our current world-view or self-view are being threatened. Although closed-minded views exist across the spectrum of society, the most divisiveness can occur between those in the expert, bureaucratic or professional sectors, and those who are outside of these sectors. Unfortunately, many individuals with a professional or vested interest in maintaining the status quo, believe that directly being questioned by someone outside of their status, and who speaks with an open-mind, denies truth, when clearly the opposite is true. In reality, rigid, box-like thinking, as well as closed-mindedness among professionals, bureaucrats and experts, who are not willing to look, listen, research or investigate, can obscure or deny the truth. Fundamentally we must realise that truth is not denied or destroyed by being open-minded.

  Speak this to me

  Solutions

  ***