Radical Openness means allowing yourself to approach new experiences, encounters and places without preconception or judgement. It means being open to trying new things, even if they make you uncomfortable sometimes.
Radical Openness is the ability to make yourself available to new things, to share yourself and engage with the nature and culture that surrounds you. Whilst I think Radical Openness is best envisioned by Jason Silva, It is worth reading the UN’s defining characteristics of this principle.
Being available to listen, learn and share on the road makes you a better person to interact with and deepens the connections and experiences your likely to make as you go.
Silva suggests that by being open in society and sharing, we have collectively
developed untold power and knowledge, so much so that we now live in a
time so exciting that WE are determining the fate of the planet.
Radical Openness allows you to harness that power, grow as a person and set new
dreams and ambitions. It is the greatest spring that feeds the river of our imagination, and…
What imagination does is
allow us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most
amazing one and pull the present forwards to meet it. – Jason Silva
So whilst on your path, be open.
Taste new foods
Dance to new melodies
Speak to strangers
Walk the path untrodden.
Laugh when something delights or amuses.
Be free to go where you wish
Be brave to step outside your comfort zone.
And…
Take care to show love and compassion for the creatures and places you encounter.
Challenge: Try Something Uncomfortable
Now let me be clear, uncomfortable does not mean unpleasant. You don’t
have to go try walking on glass just to see what it’s like.
What I mean is for you to try something that is a little outside of your
comfort zone.
Look inside yourself.
Find that thing that you’ve always wanted to do but never been quite
brave enough to try.
This is your chance, your moment to actually do it. You’re free to travel
anywhere, so free yourself to do things you’ve never done before, even if your
scared, or anxious or worried they might not be good.
When you’ve finished, even if the experience turned out poorly, you can
at least move on and that itch in your brain to try that thing you were never
brave enough to do will be gone.
