Coaching practices for Genuine Open Mindedness
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Genuine Open Mindedness, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I notice my certainty about being right slams a door before someone’s view can even reach me
- I’m kind and openhearted with the people I already love and quietly closed off to the ones who get under my skin, and I’m realizing that warmth that only flows toward easy people isn’t really the practice
- I start a hundred things, get bored the moment they stop being shiny and new, and bounce to the next
- In the area I know best I hear myself laying down flat statements about how things are, no room left for a question
- I’m very confident about a few things I think are true, and I’ve noticed I don’t actually hold any of them loosely
Practices that may help
- Practice intellectual humility as a spiritual discipline
Hold your worldview lightly enough that new evidence can reach you.
The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical - Always abide by the three principles
Maintain your vow, don’t show off, and practise impartially with everyone — not just the people you like.
Lojong: Tibetan Mind Training - Using openness to calibrate your learning approach
High openness means you need variety and novelty to stay engaged; low openness means deep, bounded practice outperforms breadth.
The Big Five Personality Model - Replace statements with questions in familiar territory
Wherever you would normally state a conclusion, form it as a genuine question instead.
Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical - Practice intellectual humility: "I might be wrong"
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
The Socratic Method, Made Practical - Invite an adversarial collaborator
Find someone whose genuine prior is the opposite of yours, and work together on the same evidence.
Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See - Apply reciprocity in feedback conversations
Offer a genuine concession or acknowledgment of your own role before asking someone to change.
The Rule of Reciprocity, Made Practical - Integrate metta with equanimity to avoid compassion fatigue
Metta extended without equanimity can become distress; grounding goodwill in steady non-attachment makes it sustainable.
Metta Bhavana: The Practice of Loving-Kindness - Shift from negative to positive orientation toward uncertainty
Reframe some uncertainty as openness — outcomes not yet known can be good as easily as bad.
Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD - Hold unconditional positive regard
Listen without judgment — not because the person is always right, but because judgment blocks honesty.
Reflective Listening: The Carl Rogers Method
Related concerns
- Openness To Being Wrong
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
Practice intellectual humility: "I might be wrong"
- Epistemic Humility
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
- Epistemic Humility Conversation
Hold your worldview lightly enough that new evidence can reach you.
Practice intellectual humility as a spiritual discipline
- Epistemic Humility In Practice
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
- Epistemic Humility Practice
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
- How To Be Humble
Regularly seek evidence that you’re wrong, limited, or have more to learn — and sit with it.
Practice structured humility
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