There are many ways to become more accepting. This is one of those ways. Naturally, we are not very accepting and we do not want to get involved in a disagreement because we are not ready to be proved wrong or it causes stress or sometimes hurts our ego when we are not able to present our perspective effectively. this particular situation leads us to destructive debate that ultimately inhibits learning and we are unable to learn from the people whose views contradict ours. On the other hand, we think that we are learning a lot from the people who share our views because our conversations look quite productive apparently. I am not totally disagreeing with the fact that we do learn from the people with the same views as ours, all I am trying to say is that we learn a lot lesser this way than by having a constructive disagreement with someone who opposes our views.
I am going to give a very common example here, just to clarify my point. The debate of the century, Android VS IOS. Android users are mostly people who have never used IOS in their entire lives and vice versa for IOS users, yet they debate with each other about which operating system is better. All they are trying to prove is that whatever they own is the best thing in the world, or they have made the right decision by buying this phone. they are trying to prove these points by throwing the lamest contradictory statements at each other deliberately. But let's think the other way around, What if we try to have a decent gainful conversation about the technological advancements both massive companies have made in recent years, What if we try to understand each other's points and eventually learn something out of it instead of just bashing each other.
To cap it all off, I strongly agree with the fact that we learn more from the people whose views contradict ours if we intend to listen to what they have to say and not care about our egos getting hurt while being proven wrong. However, we also learn from people with the same views as ours, but just a little less. The point of writing all these paragraphs is that we, as an individual need to be more accepting, be more open to knowledge instead of just being narcissists. We need to have more patience and should be able to listen and understand people around us especially whose views are different than ours. Don't feel entitled, the world does not revolve around you, and accept the fact that you might not have knowledge about everything in this world.
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