Well, are you or are you not? If so, how would you rate yourself as being "open-minded"?
Meaning, how well do you accept the variety of IDEAS and THOUGHTS in life?
2006-12-29 16:44:37 · 11 answers · asked by beatlegrl 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
o·pen-mind·ed - adj.
Having or showing receptiveness to new and different ideas or the opinions of others.
2006-12-29 17:10:03 · update #1
Open-minded just means listening to ideas and deciding, not accepting them. So, on that basis, I am very open-minded, although I have very definite opinions. It is not closed-minded to weigh the arguments on both sides of an issue and favor one or the other. That's called 'reason'.
Acceptance, meaning believing that an idea is valid because someone has it (in today's lexicon), is not open-minded, it is demagoguery. Accepting ideas simply means listening to them and putting them through scrutiny to see if they are valid or not. Finding an idea is not valid after scrutiny is not intolerance, it is just opinion.
2006-12-29 16:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by normobrian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ha, nobody in the world is going to respond that they are closed-minded. It's not human nature to point out our own faults, and being closed-minded is considered to be a fault. So yeah, I'm the most open-minded person there is. Really, I'm obviously a lot more open-minded than these others here.
2006-12-30 00:56:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffery K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I consider myself very open-minded. I'm willing to listen to almost anything provided it's presented in a mature and polite fashion. I might not agree with it, but I will listen.
2006-12-30 00:46:36 · answer #3 · answered by Maria Isabel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am very open-minded. On a scale from one to ten, one being the lowest and ten being the highest, I would give myself an eight.
2006-12-30 00:48:02 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am very open-minded in that I am accepting of how other people choose to live their lives, even though I may be very specific in living my own.
2006-12-30 00:46:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only allow you to place IDEAS and THOUGHTS in my opened mind, and accept them, no matter what, but they have to be YOURS, becausde only then will you know if I am open, since you asked the question.
2006-12-30 08:50:01 · answer #6 · answered by IMUSTOBEYHER 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i used to be a 6 but now im a 7 or 8 :)
2006-12-30 00:51:57 · answer #7 · answered by justmyinput 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to think that I'm open-minded, but I think I'm biased.
2006-12-30 00:52:58 · answer #8 · answered by TiGeR 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I am.. coz I like to please people (which I know it's bad)
So I listen to their opinion n stuff n I'm a good listener as well..
2006-12-30 01:28:17 · answer #9 · answered by duffy_dev 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very.
2006-12-30 00:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋