Effective musicians listen to many different types of music. The musicians I know and respect love all kinds of music. They listen to music that is similar and different from the music they play - a mosaic of influences. How might we become more like effective musicians?

How might we listen to and absorb all kinds of ideas? How might we tolerate ideas that we outright reject on their face?

You and I are not shaped in a vacuum, we are shaped by many colliding influences. If we are to keep growing, then we must keep ourselves open to the new and the different.