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Finally Some Commnon Sense
Apr. 1st, 2009 05:56 pmA self-help kit for closed minds
Deepak Chopra
Monday, March 30, 2009
President Obama is meeting with resistance to some of his biggest and most daring plans for change. He repeats over and over that he is open to suggestions from all sides. When the Republicans balked at his current budget, he asked them to provide one of their own. They didn't, and the reason comes down to closed minds versus open minds. Much of the opposition to change — and not just from the right wing — comes from a rigid mindset and clinging to the past.
It's typical of a closed mind to defend itself. Whether it's the right wing going back to Reaganomics, huge banks throwing a fit over regulation, or Wall Street resisting any interference with inflated bonuses, there's a stubborn resistance to change. The issues involved, even the principles being espoused, are beside the point. What a closed mind always wants to protect is its right to be closed.
I'm impressed by the phrase "the tyranny of dead ideas," which is also the title of a new book by business journalist Matt Miller. His topic is economics, and the dead ideas he examines are on the order of "Your company should take care of you" and "Your kids will earn more than you do." Some dead ideas protect us from painful truths, in this case, the truth that companies won't take care of you and maybe your kids won't earn as much as you do. But painful or not, dead ideas blind us to reality and close our minds to change.
( ways to renounce the habits which close your mind )
Wow, my Mother could take a lesson or 80 there--she won't but oh how I wish she would.
Deepak Chopra
Monday, March 30, 2009
President Obama is meeting with resistance to some of his biggest and most daring plans for change. He repeats over and over that he is open to suggestions from all sides. When the Republicans balked at his current budget, he asked them to provide one of their own. They didn't, and the reason comes down to closed minds versus open minds. Much of the opposition to change — and not just from the right wing — comes from a rigid mindset and clinging to the past.
It's typical of a closed mind to defend itself. Whether it's the right wing going back to Reaganomics, huge banks throwing a fit over regulation, or Wall Street resisting any interference with inflated bonuses, there's a stubborn resistance to change. The issues involved, even the principles being espoused, are beside the point. What a closed mind always wants to protect is its right to be closed.
I'm impressed by the phrase "the tyranny of dead ideas," which is also the title of a new book by business journalist Matt Miller. His topic is economics, and the dead ideas he examines are on the order of "Your company should take care of you" and "Your kids will earn more than you do." Some dead ideas protect us from painful truths, in this case, the truth that companies won't take care of you and maybe your kids won't earn as much as you do. But painful or not, dead ideas blind us to reality and close our minds to change.
( ways to renounce the habits which close your mind )
Wow, my Mother could take a lesson or 80 there--she won't but oh how I wish she would.
