Healthy conversations are like collaborative dances of stories, ideas, facts and opinions. Free and open-minded exchanges provide opportunities to establish fulfilling intellectual and emotional connections. Rigid or fixed minds are unlikely to allow new ideas to break through their defensive armor. Opening provides the opportunity to enjoy what musicians would call a ‘jam session’. While it might feel more safe and comfortable to pretend that we already have the world figured out, subconsciously we know that isn’t true. Not only is it more productive to consider new possibilities and perspectives…
It’s more fun.
Jarl and Steve
I am very interested in the amazing Danish custom of ‘hyggelig’. In case you are not, it is a natural propensity to generate this kind of open-minded friendliness any time more than two Danes are together. It has spread to a degree into the other Scandinavian countries. I wonder how the Danes did it! (Beware of one-word definitions. The phenomenon is way more complex)