Originally Posted by
DriGuy 
This is big, huge in fact. It is being open, but not gullible, skeptical but not negative. And it gets to the heart of the question at hand, because it describes a rational way to approach problems and solutions. It's experimentation and observation and then using that which works for you.
Don't DISBELIEVE in any course of action or sobriety method until you've tried it is the other part of this. I dismissed AA after diving headfirst into it, not before.