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This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey, how we doing everybody? In my opinion, open-mindedness or intellectual humility is not valued nearly as

highly as it should be in our culture.

Look around you.

We seem to reward people for conviction conviction even when they're dead wrong.

And when I hear people talk about the aspects of their personality that they want to improve,

usually it has to do with anxiety or addiction or self-compassion or motivation.

Rarely do I ever hear anybody embracing the aspiration to reduce their

clinging to their views and opinions. But the case for this is super strong.

Open-mindedness has been shown to reduce depression and anxiety

and increase life satisfaction.

It can also mitigate conflict and create more highly functioning teams that produce better ideas.

Studies have shown that curiosity and openness are the key to both successful startups and American Presidencies. The Buddhists have been making the

case for open-mindedness or what the Zen people call Don't Know Mind for millennia. So today we've got a trio of meditation maestros who are going to

talk about the benefits of acknowledging when you're wrong and the skill of

developing a mind that does not grasp so tightly at your opinions. We will also talk about

whether openness and decisiveness can coexist, which is a tricky question.

This is the third in a special series of episodes we're doing where my executive producer

D.J. Kashmir identifies an issue in his own life, in this case his struggles with being

wrong, and then he goes out and talks to a bunch of

teachers about how to deal with it. If you miss the prior two episodes with DJ about

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