Openness coupled with critical thinking.
The simple truth is, most of the people around you are as good as dead. I don’t mean physically, but spiritually and emotionally.
The masses tend to adopt whatever half baked ideas and beliefs their parents had and then continue to live inside of those beliefs for their entire life without ever questioning their assumptions or challenging the premises.
They live their entire lives in a box. They identify with their beliefs so strongly that challenging them is tantamount to blasphemy.
But to live a good life…not just a life of luxury and wealth, but a meaningful, passionate, and fully engaged life… you must open yourself up to new ideas and ways of being.
The world is a big place. Filled with billions of people, almost all of whom have different beliefs, ideas, and ways of being than you do.
To shut yourself off to these ideas is a form of spiritual suicide. You stop growing and hold yourself back from experiencing some of the best this life has to offer.
To be truly successful and happy, you must be open to new ideas. You must be willing to test every assumption, to ask yourself, “Is this true? And if so, how can I know that it’s true?” You must be willing to take your most cherished beliefs and dash them against the rocks to see if they break.
Constantly seek out the truth and don’t be afraid to follow where it leads.
The more willing you are to be open to new ideas, the faster you’ll learn, grow, and evolve into the person you want to be.
However…
Be sure that you don’t take this to the extreme. There’s a difference between openness and gullibility. Consider every new idea and belief with the same critical eye and scrutiny you do your existing beliefs and always, always, always, seek the truth.
Because in the end…it will set you free.
Stay Grounded,
Andrew
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