Rarely take things as given without making them your own.

Per Mortimer Adler, teachability (note difference from trainability) means exercising your independent judgement, criticality. People should make their own mind after fully hearing and understanding the other party. See Grasp the author's propositions by pondering key sentences.

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Practices:

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• Be sceptical to your own opinions; Your knowledge are just guesses
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• Diversity of thought through challenge questions
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Related:

• Be contrarian on questions, not answers
• It's on you to do the work: to learn from ideas by processing them critically and to Practice what you believe is true. Reading alone is pointless.
• Thoughtful disagreement
• Criticise the book rationally
• Analytical reading
• Syntopical reading
• Focus on detecting and eliminating errors, not comparing different knowledge sources and solutions

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