Beginner's Mind

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Beginner's mind is a mental state, similar to Symbolic fresh starts break entrenchment and enable change, where we are open to new ideas, love learning in a non-judgmental way. We tend to Explore in a playful way.

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To be in a beginner's mind is one of the most helpful ways to maintain a Capabilities are malleable through effort and learning and a Learning must continue constantly throughout life mentality. We are forever a student, ready to expand our knowledge from everyone we meet and everything we do.

We are not attached to our existing knowledge, and we embrace the Empirical testing not reason alone discovers truth as a method of exploration, accepting that we will be wrong, but in the process of setting hypothesis and testing them, we will get closer to the truth.

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It's not easy to be in this state, especially for extended periods of time. It requires Humility is acknowledging limits of knowledge and fallibility, to admit that we still have much to learn Overestimating abilities blinds us to genuine risks. It also requires us to escape the Once learned, knowledge makes it impossible to imagine its absence, to somehow not let previous knowledge hold us back from learning new things, to think that we already know everything, or to lose the curiosity that comes from being a novice.

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