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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
ISAAC ASIMOV
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Why it matters to be open minded
In the first place, you are going to miss a hell lot of opportunities to accomplish something awesome.
There are opportunities showing up every day, but only a few people are taking advantage of at least few of them.
Let's think about this: you are contacted by a local broker that is trying to convince you to invest in a great start-up. You decline and later discover that this just became a big company.
By having a bad general conception about local brokers, you are not giving credit to an ending that could have been great.
This happens very often. Open mindness could make you rich.
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How to be open minded
By not believing that your concepts are buletproof.
The skill of being open minded stands in how capable you are to have a second thought even for a seemingly straight forward situation.
When we are intepreting a situation, we are counting on a conception that we already have in order to efficiently judge it.
What if we would judge every situation without comparing it with a conception that might be biased?
This bias is often encountered because we tend to equate past situations with present ones. But they are different...
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