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Shadyglow I think like any characteristic it can have good and bad qualities.
To me its strength is to accept ideas and contrast them with your own ideas to see what, if any, value there is in them. Sometime these is, sometimes there is not, but at least I have considered it with an open mind before agreeing with it, altering it to suit my thinking or dismissing it.
On here, for example many people are closed to any thinking but their own. This prevents them from challenging themselves and perhaps strengthening their ideas or modifying their ideas. Those people seem to not want to develop their ideas and are closed to that growth. In being afraid to be challenged, they are limiting the power of their ideas.