“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”

Love this clip wildcat!

"open mind" such a rare and exotic concept..

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Agatha Christie

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Sir Thomas Browne

This is certainly 'true' at one level. But I would not take my decision as final, for down at the bottom of the mind ocean is the big seahorse (hippocampus) that welds the habits of a lifetime in its tightly knotted synapyic networks - and of course, a universal DNA of galactic becomings carries yet deeper habits.