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…be honest, open, and vulnerable enough to genuinely allow other people into your life so that they can be vulnerable in return.
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What set great presidents apart was their intellectual curiosity and openness.
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The curse of knowledge is that it closes our minds to what we don’t know. Good judgment depends on having the skill – and the will – to open our minds.
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Confident humility doesn’t just open our minds to rethinking – it improves the quality of our rethinking.
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We can demonstrate openness by acknowledging where we agree with our critics and even what we’ve learned from them. Then, when we ask what views they might be willing to revise, we’re not hypocrites.
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…psychologists find that one of the hallmarks of an open mind is responding to confusion with curiosity and interest.
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When [kids] see work as what they do rather than who they are, they become more open to exploring different possibilities.
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…go into a meeting not only with one or more specific options that would meet your legitimate interests but also with an open mind. An open mind is not an empty one.
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It is the combination of openness to reason with insistence on a solution based on objective criteria that makes principled negotiation so persuasive and effective…
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As we develop alternate realities, we need to be both open-minded and critical about what actually raises our quality of life, what helps us participate more fully in our real lives, and what simply serves as yet another distraction.
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