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February 07, 2005

What's Your Openness Quotient?

I ran across a quote from John Locke in a small town newspaper. It got me thinking about people's openness quotients. How open are we to new ideas? How often do we instantly reject the unfamiliar or the new almost out of hand without due consideration?

Here's what John Locke, an English philosopher in the 17th century had to say, "New opinions are always suspect, without any other reason but because they are not always common."

Next time someone presents an idea to you that seems "over the top," stop yourself and consider if it's the idea itself or the fact that it's new that's causing you to react in a less than positive way.

You can find more thoughts on ideas in a recent Winning at Working column called: A Bit of Pollyanna.

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Posted by Nan Russell at February 7, 2005 04:21 PM