How does one live open-mindedly in practice?

[Identity]

@Leo Gura Hee Leo, awesome video you made once again. Gaining a truckload of understanding whilst watching it.

I have some questions about the practice application of open-mindedness. Hopping between different paradigms, trying on different ones, sounds nice in theory. however, in practice it seems a lot more messy to me.

For example, it is not as simple as trying on one lens or another one as you would on a camera or projector. Although one’s entire worldview could be analogous with that, in practice there are more minute, partial aspects being challenged. One belief or a chuck of them are challenged surrounding one subject.

Also, it’s hard to “keep track” or be aware of what one’s worldview exactly is. Of course, this awareness is trainable, but it’s not like one has a list to look up beliefs and assumption (making one would be useful I guess. What seems to happen to me in practice, is that I either accept or deny certain beliefs. Than they get added into the repository/added to the snowball.
 

Like that analogy of the boat you used back in the day, where your beliefs are planks making up a boat. You need the beliefs to survive. You can change a plank here and there, but if you want to stay afloat, you can’t take all the planks away (or are we trying to sink in this scenario, lol).

Another issue is epistemology. As you question different ways of evaluating proof, this whole business becomes exponentially more complex. Now, we are not just changing lenses, but also lenses for looking at lenses ?

So, if we look from the perspective or science for example, we could be open-minded relative from the scientific perspective (which allows more flexibility than religion for example). However, as also the assumptions holding that meta-paradigm in place get loosened, there is a new layer of depth and confusion “unlocked”.

 It’s like a numbered lock. Spinning one “wheel” of digits is quite simple to keep track of. 2 as well. But the more wheels you start spinning, the amount of possible worldviews gets rediculous.

I’m not at the end yet, so maybe you mention more, but how does one practically go about open-mindedness? If I see a conspiracy theory for example, how do I look at it open-mindedly? If I read a book? If I talk to a friend? When do I accept/choose to live from a certain perspective? Which metrics should be used to evaluate a perspective? How deep should one go into confusion to still be functional?

All these questions summarized; 

How does one live open-mindedly in practice?

 

[Identity]

I see you literally just now posted an answer that covers this question for the most part lol:

“The problem is that you have to draw the line somewhere for pragmatic reasons. If you spend your time chasing down ever rumor found on the internets, you'll be doing that for 1,000 years and never awaken.

So you must balance between openmindedness but also practicality. You have limited time and energy and focus. You must be highly strategic. Distraction is a tactic of devilry. The devil would love nothing more than to have you chasing down every conspiracy theory.

Have you noticed that the most awake people do not talk about conspiracy theories? Why do you think that is?

Don't discuss low level bullshit in a Zen temple.

We are not going to wasting our time here talking about 9/11 inside job bullshit.”