the open and closed mind centered on the problem of an individual’s capacity to absorb fresh information humanity it seems varies considerably in this respect and god that is true so this guy his name is rok rokich rockeach something like this and he did the study he started breaking down the opening in the closed mind some people have open minds some people have closed minds and i actually think that this is even kind of trumps the f what was it the f scale the f scale i think this trumps the f scale how much can someone’s mind open how much can it close and i’ve been talking a lot about this from a leadership perspective because it is to me what we have to fight all the time we our minds are constantly trying to close and be defensive and take care of themselves and not allow any other ideas in and what we have to do as people and as leaders is constantly pull your mind open constantly accept other people’s ideas doesn’t mean you have to think that they’re right but you have to listen to them and assess them in an honest way and what we have been doing a lot of as a society is just closing our minds to everyone else’s ideas and we don’t want to hear what their perspective is because we think we’re right and if you do that as a leader you know you come to me with a viewpoint on my plan and i don’t open my mind to your viewpoint i’m wrong yeah um goes on here humanity it seems varies considerably in this respect that the one extreme are open minds ready and willing to entertain new facts even if they are incompatible with their previously held attitudes and beliefs that’s what we want you got to open your mind about hey you know what i wouldn’t really expect to see those numbers or get that feedback but there it is and i need to i need to put that in my calculus the other at the other end of the scale are closed minds which as their names suggest resolutely resist taking in anything that conflicts with their preconceptions and treasured beliefs not very surprisingly the possession of a closed mind turned out to be yet another aspect of the authoritarian personality is that okay so you can always make like an analogy to weightlifting for some reason maybe you can but i’m open to it let’s hear what you got but like i wonder if that’s like a lazy is you know how like by nature like the human body and brain is kind of late for lack of better term it’s lazy it’s conserving like energy all the time you know like so even like lifting weights when you lift weights your body’s response to lifting weights is just a lazy laziness mechanism and so your body is basically saying oh shoot that was kind of hard what do we got to do at home in the body to make a little bit easier next time and then it adapts and gets bigger and stronger whatever so it’s kind of like a weird like i said laziness lack of better term mechanism so like when you have a closed mind it’s kind of like hey i already learned that like don’t give me some more stuff i got to learn 100 kind of things so then it’s easier like because it’s all mental it’s not physical so you just kind of resist against it you know and you can see where this ties into everything that i have talked about from a leadership perspective for my entire life which is humility because if you’re humble your mind is open if you’re arrogant your mind is closed you think you know everything you don’t need to hear anything else you’re not going to make any adaptations yeah when you see that little system it kind of makes sense it makes so much sense right especially go back to the weightlifting like you give your body something definitely bro the next day you get that doms right you don’t like that stuff like i remember when i was little i do some push-ups right thinking i’m all cool or whatever do something the next day i’m like so i didn’t know about doms that much and bro that’s a terrible feeling so it’s like bro i’m not doing that anymore or at the very least at the in the inside of my body my body’s like hey we got to do something easier or make it so it’s easier next time that happens so from a mental standpoint it makes sense where bro that what do you call it the the [ __ ] you called you talked about it the cognitive uh dissonance or whatever that is dom’s for your mind essentially or maybe the precursor to i don’t know it’s one of those things i’m just saying it makes sense because that hurts you know when you get that new stuff i don’t want that new stuff i’m good with this old stuff closed mind
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