Openness is a virtue.
Openness implies a willingness to...
- Treat others respectfully
- Listen, deeply and carefully
- Understand, as clearly as possible
- Seek areas of possible agreement
- Examine and re-examine, on continual loop
Openness does not imply that we can/will agree on every issue or topic, across the spectrum.
Complete and total adherence to the position, thinking, and/or standards of another is more an indication of cultist behavior than it is of openness.
Openness is an immensely challenging intellectual and emotional exercise, for it forces us to critically look inward as we are simultaneously looking outward.
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