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Originally Posted by A.K.Light  I agree with Aristotle.
Can we ever be too open-minded? That's a good question, and I don't think that you'll find a common consensus. My first thought is, yes, we can be too open minded sometimes.
It's great to always be open to something new and better. Why hold yourself back?
But then, sometimes, it might be more advantageous to stick with what you already believe. If you don't firmly stand for something, then you stand for nothing... maybe.
I often think of it this way. If you encounter a problem where you need to make a decision and you end up making the wrong one, that same problem will come back to you again in another form and give you another chance to make a better choice, and it will continue to do so until you've made the decision that's right for you. As long as you're moving up, being wrong can't hold you back.
Being open minded is certainly a good thing, but I think you just have to believe whatever is right for you at the time. If any new idea doesn't pass your own logic, you can't accept it. I think it is possible to be too open, because then you'd be believing thousands of things that condradict each other, or you'd never be able to believe any one thing for sure.
Whatever you belief is true to you (subjectively), so I say go ahead and believe in the most positive thing that makes sense to you, and if it's wrong, it will be corrected later. |
As stated in the farcical movie Dogma, I think that people should be bigger on IDEAS and less on BELEIFS, for the sole reason that perspectives change often (paradigm shifts) and new things are discovered frequently. Ideas are much easier to change than beleifs, and are much easier to debate. It's a really tough thing to change one's beleifs.
Think open-source! It seems to me to be the ultimate cooperational tool of the future, and maybe it should be integrated into a lot of other fields!