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What would the world look like if everyone shared a mindset of constant growth, intellectual curiosity, and most importantly, the concept of always challenging your own beliefs and assumptions along the way?
With a mindset like this, it would be so difficult for politicians and other media, power hungry types to manipulate individuals if the masses had a much more critical approach to listening with discernment and curiosity.
You can’t be easily manipulated if you keep asking questions and listening. You will uncover the truth, Dr. Ruth.
What this results in is a perspective that you may have opinions or ideas on something, but nothing is ever set in stone or fully baked. In other words, you take the information that you have today and that shapes and informs your perspective, but you’re always open to more information differing perspectives and additional ways to look at things because that’s intellectually sound and more interesting from a curiosity perspective.
Questioning your own beliefs is healthy because it promotes critical thinking, reduces susceptibility to manipulation, enhances decision-making, and fosters intellectual growth. By actively examining and challenging your own assumptions, you become more open to new perspectives, embrace uncertainty, and are better equipped to adapt and thrive in a complex world.
Here’s a more detailed look at the benefits:
Critical Thinking:
Questioning beliefs encourages analytical thinking, helping you evaluate information logically and avoid being easily misled.
Reduced Manipulation:
By questioning everything, you become more aware of propaganda, scams, and deceptive tactics, making it harder to be manipulated.
Better Decision-Making:
Examining evidence and alternatives allows for more informed and balanced decisions, leading to better outcomes.
Intellectual Growth:
Challenging assumptions and considering different perspectives fosters intellectual curiosity and a deeper understanding of yourself and the world.
Embracing Uncertainty:
Questioning your beliefs acknowledges that you don’t have all the answers and encourages you to be open to new information and ideas.
Increased Self-Awareness:
Questioning your beliefs can reveal hidden biases and assumptions, leading to a greater understanding of yourself and your motivations.
Promoting Open-Mindedness:
By being willing to challenge your own beliefs, you become more open to the perspectives of others, leading to better communication and collaboration.
Enhanced Personal Growth:
Questioning your beliefs can lead to personal transformation as you explore new possibilities and embrace new ways of thinking and behaving.
It would be fascinating to have four different Christian churches and preachers deliver four different sermons all on the same subject and see how the perspectives differ and what information and references they would draw from the Bible for their sermon.
An evangelical interpretation may be a Baptist and who knows throwing a fundamentalist Christian and how about one from the Coptic Christian Church?
You could choose any subject matter, say Forgiveness, and you would get four different interpretations and four different perspectives on whatever the subject was from that day. All four churches would be drawing off the same traditions going back thousands of years and would all be using the same text to work from the Christian holy Bible.
Yet, if you sat in those four sermons, you would have four completely different experiences with four different interpretations delivered to four quite different audiences. What could you learn from those differing sermons and wouldn’t it be interesting to afterwards work on finding some common ground and see if there were any common messages that could be drawn on just to see different perspectives and how those look and show up in the real world?
Being open to new in different information starts with accepting the fact that you don’t always have to be right or correct, and that the mind is just like a parachute and it only functions when wide open. This open-minded perspective is also a wonderful way in a society like ours with so many different people from various places in the world to maintain an open mind and to be curious instead of judgmental.
That has been an exercise in 2025 for me, is to flip the switch every time I start to get judgmental in my mind and think that I know what’s going on and hold myself accountable to the fact that that’s really just an ego game that I’m doing to make myself feel better and that I really don’t know shit about anybody else. Furthermore, this allows me with grace to forgive myself for being a jackass and to just shift on over to an unfamiliar perspective and get curious.
Curiosity feels so much better to me than judgment, and it leaves me in a much better mental and emotional state.
Let’s all be like the monkey Curious George and ask why with an open heart and an open mind and keep building our wonderful attitude of gratitude.
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