Quotes About Open-mindedness

When they're told that some people or ideas are wrong, hateful, or offensive, a light bulb should go off in their heads. That is the moment their curiosity should be piqued to find out for themselves whether it is indeed a "bad" thing.

Follow your curiosity, wherever you can find

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The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success, by Matthew Syed.

Last but not least, much of what I recommend will seem impossible and even offensive to basic common sense—I expect that. Resolve now to test the concepts as an exercise in lateral thinking. If you try it, you'll see just how deep the rabbit hole goes, and you won't ever go back.

I've always treated the world as my classroom, soaking up lessons and stories to fuel my path forward. I hope you do the same. The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

if you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to exclude a lot of possible good solutions. You're going to assume you know a lot of things, when in fact you don't, and you're not going to be a good partner in reaching a solution with other people who don't happen to see the world the way you do.

Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think.

Me obligo a mí mismo a dejar de comparar lo que aprendo con el pasado. Si sólo te fijas en los patrones del pasado, no llegarás lejos.»

when I speak with anyone about anything, I try to hold their perspective with a "light grip": the knowledge that they, and I, have very incomplete maps of reality.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I

On the Advantage of Cultivating Beginner's Mind "Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don't notice the things that are new about it. You don't notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don't notice where the gaps are, what's missing, or what's not really working.

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Why not? Yeah

Il problema è che fino a quando penseremo di avere il monopolio del bene, fino a che parleremo della nostra come LA civiltà, ignorando le altre, non saremo sulla buona strada.

Avanzar, buscar, buscar lo otro. Ocuparse de todo lo que es distinto. Salir de los caminos trazados. Viajar ha sido importantísimo para mí. Esa sensación de descubrimiento ha sido importantísima. Ésa era mi vida, no me detenía nada.

Don't be afraid to try. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to color your hair. Try to understand where people are coming from. Don't forget that most people are really good at heart. And if you hate your name, change it.

Another way of allowing more freedom into the mind is not holding fixed ideas about people and things.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

We are all quite capable of believing in anything as long as it's improbable.

But first we have to accept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results, and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.

Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.