Motivation

Lunch Hour: Not too difficult to be open-minded

It involves being receptive towards an open variety of ideas to gain Open-mindedness. It also requires arguments as well as information.

Undoubtedly open-mindedness denotes a positive quality of the personality.  It gets necessary if you opt for thinking rationally and critically. Nevertheless, being open-minded is not too easy. Welcoming new experiences and ideas may sometimes cause confusion and cognitive dissonance. And this is but obvious, while learning new things begins a conflict with existing beliefs.

Before one chooses to be an open-minded person, he or she needs to know what it means. Then only the benefits of having an open mindset can be explained along with the way you can work on growing this ability.

Answering to this question here – What is open-mindedness? we need to go through the literal and figurative analysis of the term.  Being non-prejudiced or tolerant is usually known as the trait of “open-mindedness”. Mulling over it psychologically the term appears to be describing how willing people are to consider other perspectives.

On the contrary, being closed-minded say dogmatic is the opposite of being open-minded. With close-minded thought pattern, people usually who are found not receptive to other ideas.

Simultaneously, if you think you are a fairly open-minded person, still there may be certain subjects on which you can’t stop taking a much harder stance, viz. passionate experiences and emotionally social issues.

There are a number of characteristics of an open-minded person for example: they usually  are curious to hear what others think and they also do not shy away with having their ideas challenged. They have empathetic attitude for others as well as they do not hesitate to consider what others are thinking.

To sum up the analysis over the beautiful human quality called open-mindedness, we have to accept it as being receptive to new experiences and ideas. And as a loud and clear benefit of being so is getting ready to enjoy more useful and powerful journey of life.

 

Parijat Tripathi

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