How often do you work on unsettling your mind?

While there’s a lot of talk and literature regarding mindset, unsettling of the mind is often overlooked. But in my opinion, unsettling your mind is just as important as working on your mindset.

In order to accept new ideas, you must be willing to change your current way of thinking, and this can be difficult because you have to admit that you’re wrong. You must come to terms with the notion that the information you base your thinking on is either incorrect or out of date.

Why is changing your mind, or opinions and views so hard to do? It’s because they are the foundation of your identity.

There’s a high probability that the older you get the more difficult it is for you to change your mind regarding certain subjects. The reason for this is that you begin to justify your success or your longevity in life with your way of thinking, but the problem with this kind of justification is that you don’t get to go back in time and run a parallel experiment. You don’t know how different your life could have been if you had thought differently.

Now I’m not recommending that you become fickle and change your mind on a whim based on any new information you receive, or the opinions of others. What I am suggesting is that you be flexible and open to evaluating new information and be willing to change your mind and unsettle your current way of thinking.

So, the next time you’re presented with information that challenges your current way of thinking, instead of disregarding it and thinking of it as incorrect, be open to at least evaluating it. Giving yourself permission to change your mind doesn’t make you less of who you are, it allows you to explore possibilities of becoming more than who you currently are.

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