Open-mindedness

Description

Uncertainty.

Issues Addressed

This section lists problem-factors and thinking-traps that this process can address. In general, addressing the issue requires the issue to be filtered through the processes of self-awareness qv and open-mindedness qv.

Issues addressed.

Relationship with Other Components

Input

From self-awareness qv: I am (or input is) wrong. (See pages for other processes.)

Output

Adjust input info. (See pages for other processes.)

Similarities

Relationship with Other Components.

To Do

As a consequence of self-awareness qv, open-mindedness should influence most/all engine processes. Self-awareness and open-mindedness therefore act like general-purpose filters for the other processes. Rather than describing the effect of open-mindedness on every other process on this page, every other process page will describe the effect that open-mindedness has on that particular process.

Combine with self-awareness qv?

consequence of self-awareness qv. Applicable to ALL problem-factors qv and thinking-traps qv. Conscious reasoning mode (qv) effort to overcome problem factors and thinking traps.
Learn (become educated about) about the problem and possible actions. Consider alternatives. Consider consciously changing thinking mode (to reasoning, or maybe invoking intuition for creativity).
Instead of (or in addition to) learning, trust and accept someone else's opinion. Decide whom to trust (maybe by considering what thinking traps they may susceptible to).
Rename to generalise and include education/learning? It's not always about being open-minded.
Learning changes memory. Memory is obviously used in conscious thinking processes, but it can also affect subconscious processes such as intuition qv and emotion qv.[BW] The latter are extremely important for guiding priorities and assessments.

Why do some people use alcohol, drugs, binge eating, distraction, etc, to mask negative emotions caused by dissatisfaction?[BW] It indicates a decision to make the emotion go away by chemical means rather than by solving the problem to the extent possible, which shows the influence of emotion on priorities. Maybe the priority, or objective function, is to make the unpleasant emotion go away rather than to solve the problem that causes the emotion. It may also relate to a ring-of-responsibility (problem-assessment qv) issue: feeling bad about something that the individual can't change to the extent desired. Looking at the issue backwards: if the decision is alcohol, then the problem being tackled is that of feeling bad (ie, emotion).

"...instead of trying to make our responses just right for the climate of the future we should seek out resilient and flexible solutions, remedies that will be robust in a wide range of possible climate outcomes."