there are several kinds of reception possible. there is the mind which lies in wait with traps for flaws, so set that it may miss, through not grasping it, a soundness.
there is a second which is not reception at all, but blind flight because of laziness, or because some pattern is disturbed by the processes of the discussion.
the best reception of all is that which is easy and relaxed, which says in effect, "let me absorb this thing. let me try to understand it without private barriers. when i have understood what you are saying, only then will i subject it to my own scrutiny and my criticism." this is the finest of all critical approaches and the rarest.

-john steinbeck