Open mindedness

Open mindedness - being an active listener, genuinely considering others viewpoints and not pre-judging. 

Having brought on the row, Judge Morris pointedly ignored the two pleas for open-mindedness. What did it really mean, this repeated complaint that the evidence was irrelevant Often he had referred distastefully to the "lengthy documents, the large number of documents," as if the prosecution should try to condense a tome to a headnote ... 

A nine-month follow-up indicated that Duncan regards the total experience as a most significant one. He has continued to grow and mature, as he sees it. There have been some difficult times. "What I regarded as the end of the experience when I left the hospital," he told me, "was simply the beginning of an experience of maturing which is still continuing." He reports more tolerance and open-mindedness, and he recoils... 

The most positive aspect was the extraordinary intellectual ferment coupled with open-mindedness which permeated the whole place . There was no distinction between high and low brow, it was all one intellectual adventure. That is how polymers eventually slotted in between quantum mechanics, dislocations, particle physics, liquid helium, design of new optical in-... 

Umberto Eco s novel The Name of the Rose can also be read as a story of curiosity and its limits. The old, blind monk Jorge was well aware of the reason he deprived his (not only monastic) contemporaries of the Second Book of the Aristotelian poetics of curiosity After all, a philosophy of laughter would change the world and entail tolerance and open-mindedness for new ideas - old, conservative, authoritarian, even fanatic structures would be put to the test. Finally, curiosity wins out in the film based on the book, Sean Connery in the role of Eco s former inquisitor William of Baskerville solves the apocalyptic murder cases - monastery and book, however, burst into flames. Something new is coming. 

Recruiters should gather information about the candidate by talking with major advisors, other faculty members, former classmates, and formal references. The following personal characteristics are especially important competence, productivity, genuineness, growth potential, flexibility, open-mindedness, cooperativeness, deference, communication, self-confidence, motivation, thoughtfulness, ethics, independence, and commitment. 

Making Sense of Marx is a monument to patience, open-mindedness, intellectual scrupulousness and straightforward intelligence. ... 

NSSE (National Society of the Study of Education) has defined scientific attitudes "open mindedness, a desire for accurate knowledge, confidence in procedures for seeking knowledge and the expectation that the solution of the problem will come through the use of verified knowledge". 

The understanding of the environment through apphcation of scientific method (the processes of science) will help children to develop a scientific attitude in life, which may comprise such components as rational outlook, open-mindedness, a positive inclination for... 

Wilkinson s theories were considerably more radical than Brush s, however, and it is a tribute to the open-mindedness of the Admiralty of the day and, perhaps, a measure of the desperate crisis confronting the nation, that their response was both positive and encouraging.. Arrangements were made to give Wilkinson all the help he needed to implement and evaluate his scheme and for this purpose the storeship Industry was made available for experimental repainting. 

In chemistry, many important chemical transformations have been discovered accidentally. Indeed, serendipity, which emanates from researchers with keen observation, open-mindedness, good instincts, and scientific intuition, has played a key role in science in general. 

This book presupposes no special competence or training in the reader—only open-mindedness. But it requires of him one more thing—that he seriously consider, with Samuel Johnson, that hell is paved with good intentions, and that he conscientiously apply this caveat to the ideology, rhetoric, and rituals of the political organization characteristic of our age—the Therapeutic State. 

Consensus is frequently referred to as the preferred dedsion-maldng strategy for teams. Shared definitions of consensus and clear procedures to put this mode of decision making in place are needed. Consensus is defined by Scholtes (1988) as a process of finding a proposal that is acceptable enough that aU members can support it and no member opposes to it. Consensus requires time and active participation from team members (Carr and Littman 1993). It demands mutual respect (listening), open-mindedness, and effort at conflict resolution. 

Twenty-nine of 31 successful problem-solving examples were described as open and free from outside influences that might have created road blocks . They involved very open brainstorming , open and honest communication , and open-mindedness to new ideas of stakeholders. Product engineers had authority to ask for help and direct control over design or process changes if needed . 

Traditionally in any education system crisp logic is much easier to reach to a common agreement because at the end it provides truth and precision even though in the idealized world. However, the classical education system renders the students to become acquaintant with precision by saying that science provides precision, which is not acceptable absolutely. Fuzzy education system provides open-mindedness in the argument of any problem and open for further criticisms, which helps to improve the present solution alternative, if any. 

Some of you may catch this pun on the best-selling book Whack on the Side of the Head by von Oech. The book stresses creativity and open-mindedness in our thinking. See von Oech, Roger, A Whack on the Side of the Head, Warner Books, New York, 1990. 

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