Source: Four Minute Books
If You Want To Be Successful: Have An Open Mind
How To Find Out If You Are Open-Minded?
In his book “Principles: Life and Work”, Ray Dalio talks about how to get around the two biggest barriers to good decision making — your ego and your blind spots. If we are like most people, we don’t know how other people see things and we are not good at trying to understand what they are thinking. This is because we are closed-minded: we are too focused on telling other people what we think is right.
How do we find out if we are closed-minded? He offered seven clues to find out whether we or others are being closed-minded:
- Closed-minded people don’t want their ideas challenged.
2. Closed-minded people are more likely to make statements than ask questions.
3. Closed-minded people focus much more on being understood than on understanding others.
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