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If you want to unlock your full potential and achieve more success in life, you have to open your mind to welcome new knowledge and ideas. To improve your relationships with others, such as your friends and loved ones, you also have to be open-minded to be more understanding and live harmoniously with them. Open-mindedness indeed has a lot of benefits in life. This is why no matter how hard it is to keep an open mind, you have to try your best to do it. Here are 7 ways to be more open-minded. 1. Humble yourself. Good things and blessings come to a humble person. Hence, if you want to be blessed with an open mind to unlock your true potential, start by becoming humble. Begin practicing humility by admitting your weaknesses and shortcomings. Accept the fact that you need to grow more and be more open-minded. 2. Open your heart. Get rid of pride, envy, hatred, and other things that make your heart closed. It’s hard to be humble when your heart is full of pride. Thus, get rid of pridefulness. Open your heart and welcome humility, forgiveness, happiness, love, faithfulness, kindness, and compassion. When your heart is open and warm, your mind will also be open for more knowledge and awareness. 3. Conquer your false fears. Choose your fears. You can either fear the truth or fear the lies. But if you want to open your mind and be the best person you want to be, do not fear the truth but be ready to face it. Do not be afraid of facing the truth but be afraid of losing it. Do not be afraid of doing the right thing; be afraid of doing the wrong thing. If you can conquer your fear of truth and righteousness, your mind will be braver to open. 4. Be hungry for knowledge. Be a curious soul. Broaden and deepen your knowledge. See the world in two sides. Don’t let your mind be isolated on one side of information. Review your sources of news, information, and lessons. Consider other sources, whether they agree or disagree with your belief. Don’t be stuck with positive or favorable information. Remember that what is true or right is not always positive, they can also be negative or disagreeable. 5. Make a big decision to be open-minded. Believe that being an open-minded person is the right decision. Realize that open-mindedness will make you more receptive to new ideas that will help you become a better person. So choose open-mindedness and reject closed-mindedness. You have to be serious. Hence, make it one of the most important decisions in your life. 6. Practice open-mindedness. Actual experience will give you understanding. You will only understand and appreciate the benefits of being an open-minded person if you actually practice it. When you do open your mind, you will realize that your relationships with friends, families, and even with yourself are improving. You will start developing self-esteem and inner peace because your mind becomes more mature. 7. Love it. The ultimate step to becoming open-minded is to love open-mindedness. So love it, fight for it, be patient, and have faith in it. It’s not easy to be an open-minded person since it will require a lot of humility and self-sacrifice. But with love, you can be able to swallow your pride and make a big sacrifice. You cannot also love both open-mindedness and closed-mindedness. Thus, you can only love the first and hate the latter. And when you hate closed-mindedness, you will also hate the things which are related to it, such as pride, selfishness, and arrogance. Finally, with the patience and passion you have for open-mindedness, you will live consistently as an open-minded person. Final thoughts Opening your mind is not easy, especially if your mind harbors the wrong fears and your heart keeps pride which creates the walls that imprison your soul. To break free, you need to harness a powerful energy that will change your life, not only for a minute, but for the rest of your days. Get that energy from love. Love open-mindedness. Know it, choose it, practice it, and fight for it like your life depends on it. The more you know, do, and stand for it, the more you will love it and reap its benefits.