Episode notes
In this episode, Israel Gebru Danny and Annette L. Demers discuss another topic related to mindset: openness!
Related podcasts include: The Box, The Facade and Self-Actualization.
If you are listening to this podcast, there’s a good chance that you are more OPEN than others - this is, after all, the Garden of Ideas!!
MINDSET - the basis of all of our podcasts!
As kids - we are open to everything!
As we age, our brains get more and more tightly wired. (neural network)
So new things get scarier as we age.
Openness is the antidote to fear.
Openness can connect us to our creativity and flow. As we mentioned in Episode 2 - tapping in to our creativity and flow is an important way to achieve self-actualization.
Openness requires mindful living.
Openness can bring us closer to the people we love (inviting perspectives and making us better communicators).
Ideas, innovation and problem solving require openness to new ideas!
We can make our lives better in many ways if we are open to new ideas (there is tons of info out there about getting healthier, being a better communicator, building better relationships, being a better public speaker, etc - but if we think we already know everything and refuse to listen to new ideas -then we won’t benefit. (of course being a smart information consumer)