Absolutely. I think it's tough for someone doing 2-3 speaking engagements a day to meet each person with that sort of "beginner's mind," but ultimately, it must be done in order not to stagnate in our thinking.
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Yep - and it’s exactly those engagements which select for individuals who have such high confidence in their own ideas and decreasingly have the incentive to be malleable.
He’s a smart and entertaining guy - I’ve been at a conference where he was a keynote. But his opinions and biases are strongly baked into the shtick and he wasn’t invited by the organizers to talk in a nuanced way about complex policy - He did exactly what everyone wanted from him.
Just makes you appreciate the real ones who stop and actually think without ego. Those are impressive people