If I'm ever in a conflict with someone, I try to turn it into a positive; "what can I learn from this?"

I pay attention to people's mannerisms, body language, behavior to see how they work best. I constantly remind myself that diversity is what makes this life thing so awesome. I respect neurodiversity, and I understand not all minds work the same.

I will pick a topic I've never heard about and read about it, just to expand my mind. If I'm involved in an altercation on the street that makes me angry, I'll somehow find the humor in it.

If I read about a hardship people face that doesn't personally affect me, I'll read books, research online, watch youtube videos, documentaries, to try to get a better understanding, at least from an outsider's perspective.

I watch youtube videos often of different cities: not the commercial chamber of commerce ones, but videos where someone who lives there takes their camera out with them for the day. This helps me see what it's like in other countries, this helps expand my mind, see beyond the narrow tunnel of my own nation.

I always check facts, I always play devil's advocate, I insist on sources, I do not accept blindly anything anyone tells me. I do research on cognitive fallacies and so forth, to see the ways in which information can be manipulated. I study writing, psychology, behavioral conditioning in order to see how people present their ideas, and how one can be misled.

I use the playground of my mind to reposition, juxtapose concepts and ideas, because turned upside down or considered from a different perspective, you can gain enlightening insight. What's true for me may not be what's true for another person; sometimes "reality" is subjective, and I try to keep an awareness of that.

Above all, one of my most favorite phrases (paraphrased) of all time, from Plato, or Socrates, can't remember which: True wisdom consists of knowing that you know nothing.