Open-Mindedness
Webster’s Dictionary for Open-Mindedness -1: free from rigidly fixed preconceptions
( A Story of Open-Mindedness)
-The story of Eric Thomas and the lost keys
One day, Mr. Eric Thomas planned on leaving the house and going to the store.So Eric headed for the door, swept his hand across the counter to collect his keys and felt nothing. He thought to himself the countertop closest to the front door is where he always sat his keys. Eric was not proactive at all to begin with, he just kept standing there thinking “I know I left those keys on the counter last night.” So he sat there for 20 minutes walked around the house growing in even more disbelief, ultimately returning to the empty countertop. His knowing closed the door and built a brick wall to all the possible places the keys could really be. But, once he let go of what he knew, he greatly improved the chances of actually finding them. And eventually, in a place he never thought they’d be, on the nightstand of his daughter’s bed he found his keys. The night before his daughters had been sick so he went straight to her room bypassing the countertop. He never even considered the keys being in her room because “he knew” where he left them.
(Food for thought)
Mental walls can often be difficult to destroy because of past experiences or even an irrational perceptions on life, but these mental walls are ultimatley the enemy.
Thanks and have a blessed day
