Be Open to New Ideas - 32/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

I'm not sure when I learnt this principle, but it is something I try to practice daily.I find that everyone has got unique experiences and angles on life, so it's worth listening to them and taking in their experiences. Not only, as I mentioned earlier, with regards to the convergence rate. Where it takes someone 10 years to learn a lesson and they tell you the lesson in a sentence, but also being around people can spur your imagination and generate ideas.When you are open to new ideas, you are letting new information and opportunity into your mind.You've got to be open minded to listening to people, because they may know something you don't and that could change your life.The way I see it is the more knowledge you have inside your brain, the more particles of knowledge you have so when an external input comes along: a comment or an image from somewhere else.The more knowledge you have got to bounce it around by. And the more bounces it makes, the more energy it generates and thus the more ideas and opportunity you can create from a single piece of input.I was at a shopping centre recently, and I saw a air freshener in someone else's car, which instantly gave me a series of ideas for books. So because of that image, I will soon be creating those books and thus creating opportunity from nowhere.Listen to 99% of the people in the world, but remember that most people do not know what they are talking about. So take what they say with a pinch of salt. Take what they say and compare it to other knowledge you have, as a way to filter it's worthiness.You'll realise the 1% of people that are worth listening to every word they say, because of what they say, think and what their goals are.Listen to the 99% of people in the world, but remember that most people do not know what they are talking about. So take it with a pinch of salt!Question of the day: who have you spoken to today that you would not normally talk to/not spoken to in a while?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.