Method hidden

I was taught at a young age the rigorous scientific method. When new ideas come in the first reaction of a pure scientist is to test that idea rigorously which requires a posture of disbelief.

This is all very good in science but it doesn’t go down so well at home or in the workplace where an openness to the ideas of others is surely part of a successfully strategy in life.

So I have had to curb my scientific method. I now express wonderment at the ideas of others and quietly test the hypothesis in my head.