Conclusions easily END any further learning.

Learn to balance

 

Conviction admits no other viewpoints, invalidates them.

 

Allow other points of view to be there comfortably. Their first purpose is to expand ones repertoire of understandings.  Agreeing to them is not necessary. Acting on them is not necessary. Letting them be there and be expressed and understanding them IS necessary. (that is, if one is intent on building his own understandings

 

A wonderful way to stop growth in oneself (and maybe others) is to employ the two attitudes:  This is Right & That is Wrong.  They may be either right or wrong but they are also hundreds of other things - which you will never know because you stop your investigation of them with the Right/Wrong label.  This label is a conclusion, an ending.     the word is 'con'  an intensifier, and 'clus' - CLOSE, and 'ion' - an instance of.

 

Conclusion means 'an instance of a very strong closing'.

 

The step up from automatically ending your growth by labeling them either right or wrong and sticking like glue to them, is to 1. let others have a differing viewpoint. 2. YOUR viewpoint can easily look wrong to others. Don't hang on to it so hard.  You likely will not die if you let it die. Or at least let it become one of a bunch of viewpoints on the subject, and its one you know more about. 3. develop your ability to see things truly from other peoples points of view. 4. develop your ability to take up and abandon a point of view. 5. When you discover an opposing point of view realize you've been stuck in a right/wrong conclusion about that subject. Look for 2 or 3 or more different points of view about the same subject as your 'right view' and his 'wrong view'.  Grow up :)