My ideas are best. So are yours, but how do we learn to hear one another?

Everyone thinks their ideas are best, so how to do we figure that out and learn from one another? Our future leaders will need to master this skill. Here's how they should do it.

If our leaders of tomorrow will need a skill (the willingness to expose their ideas to scrutiny) that flies in the face of human nature, they will need a place to learn that skill, and to refine it. At Pepperdine, we recognize this skill — like most others — is not learned overnight.   Pete Peterson is dean of Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

The social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, in his important book about political beliefs, "The Righteous Mind," has gone so far as to argue that part of the reason for our differing perspectives may be genetic. He’s not alone.