Step 2: Embrace

 Literally?  Up to you.  

Figuratively?  For sure.  And this is all I am talking about: embrace the moment.

Embracing the moment means embracing the ideas of those around you in an effort to understand other points of view.  Embrace arguments, even if you are sure you are right and they are wrong.  Embrace the dumb ideas.  Embrace the possibilities.  Embrace other perspective, genuinely, and you will open hearts as well as minds.  If your beliefs are strong, there is nothing to be lost by embracing the beliefs in the moment.  Nothing can come from them but understanding.

After all, every embrace must end.

And when you are done embracing…well, what you do next is up to you.  However, the mere act of embracing will inevitably change your world view, even if just a little.  And the mere act of embracing might just change another world view, even if just a little.  You see, by choosing to care enough about others to hear them out, you deflate the resistance that might have otherwise been put in your way, even if just a little.  Or a lot.

Listen.  Embrace.  Open doors that would have otherwise been closed.