An additional key component of both the scientific method and the experimental mindset involve being open sourced — willing to sharing your information with others and to experience surprising results.
Sharing our information makes it possible for to have our findings affirmed, challenged, or disproven, by our peers. It can also result in an innovation that improves the original idea.
Being open sourced is a key component of both the scientific method and the experimental mindset and it makes possible the most essential aspect of the scientific process known as objective verification — which basically means making our results available to others so that they can be either challenged or confirmed.
In science the objective verification process, also known as peer review, has been the most revolutionary force in human history. In the context of interpersonal dynamics, the corresponding process is intersubjective verification. Utilizing an intersubjective process to understand ourselves and each other can also produce revolutionary results.
Sharing our information with others facilitates a collaborative process where the contribution of others can produce results that we never would have arrived upon by ourselves. Taking an open sourced approach to lasting personal growth and healthier more satisfying relationships is also a key part of Naturalistic Support. Being open to hearing how others experience us, and willing to share personal information, can support our long-term growth and lasting change.
To be engaged in a community that values openness and sharing can help us understand ourselves in surprising ways. As we engage more deeply in an open relationship with others, we learn new things about ourselves. We may learn that many of the thoughts and feelings that we previously thought were unique to us, are also experienced by others. We might also find that some our thoughts and feelings that we assumed to be common are not.