The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120291   Message #2615850
Posted By: Wolfgang
21-Apr-09 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: How to be open-minded
Subject: RE: BS: How to be open-minded
Just a couple of weeks ago, a lady has called me "not open-minded" because I had dared to call what she considers psychic counseling cold reading. And it wasn't even good cold reading. To a male client who was a bit shy and introverted she said "You are not working in a social type of work, are you?", to which he replied "Actually, I am a social worker". Twenty seconds later on the video she said "I sense a social touch in you". I hope the TV people don't edit that blooper.

The natural follow-up to the "You're not open-minded" statement is the "Have you ever changed your opinion on something" which she gave me then. "Quite often" I said but we still didn't become friends.

The linked video is a bit too preachy and force-down your throat for my taste though the logic is sound.

Wolfgang