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 8. Openness to Change and Learning: Members should demonstrate a willingness to seek out and receive new information, introspect on their underlying values, change their opinions based on evidence and rationale, and adapt their perspectives accordingly.
 9. Effective Communication in Charged Conversations: Members will need to carefully navigate charged conversations and evocative feedback, and respond constructively and with empathy, to each other and to the community. Members should be able to handle passionate discussions about code style, recognize miscommunication and misunderstandings, and promote empathy and listening.
 10. Interest in Language and Syntax: Members should show interest in tracking changes to the Rust language and syntax. Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments helps inform style decisions.
+11. Ability to weigh subjective decisions, and seek out "better" rather than "perfect": We need a default Rust style, and even in the face of conflicting requirements we still need to make a decision. Style team decisions will attempt to best satisfy most members of the Rust community, but can never be perfect. Members will need to keep this in mind and help the style team make the best consent-based decisions it can.
 
 [^1]: We suggest reaching out via zulip DM to one of the current team members, and contacting the lead by default if you're unsure who to reach out to.