This is what I personally try to strive for; it’s good to see that there’s been some academic work on defining and measuring it. Sorry to link to the low-quality Psychology Today; there just isn’t much out there yet for a lay audience on the topic.
date our beliefs takes cognitive effort. We need to override our initial impulses. This is further complicated when a belief is challenged that is central to us (Haidt, 2012). Nevertheless, it can serve as a cognitive aspiration. We will certainly fall short of being actively open-minded, but when we sense we are in Refutation Mode, we can try to momentarily recalibrate and see if being actively open-minded may serve us in the situation.
For example, in making billion-dollar investments, Ray Dalio, the founder of the world’s largest hedge-fund, places the dictate to be “Radically Open-Minded” as one of his key management principles. As he states:
“Radical open-mindedness is the ability to effectively explore different points of view and different possibilities…It requires you to replace your attachment to always being right with the joy of learning what’s true” (2017, p. 187).