“Advice from a failed practitioner will be better than from a successful theorist." — mmay3r
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If you can’t sit still, ignore notifications, and focus on one task for eight hours straight, never expect to build something great.
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But who should live your life if you do not live it?
It is not only stupid to exchange your own life for an alien one, but also a hypocritical game, because you can never really live the life of others, you can only pretend to do it.
— Carl Jung, The Red Book
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It is not only stupid to exchange your own life for an alien one, but also a hypocritical game, because you can never really live the life of others, you can only pretend to do it.
— Carl Jung, The Red Book
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PHILOSOPHER: In other words, human beings cannot live alone. It is not that we cannot bear loneliness or that we want people to talk to, so much as simply not being able to live on the level of survival. And in order to divide labour with another person, one must believe in that person. One cannot cooperate with someone whom one doubts.
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PHILOSOPHER:
You have not yet learned to like yourself. As a result, you cannot believe in others, you cannot believe in your students and are unable to embark on friend relationships. That is exactly why you are now trying to gain a sense of belonging through your work. You are trying to prove your worth by being successful in your work.
YOUTH: What is wrong with that? Recognition at work is recognition from society!
PHILOSOPHER: No. In principle, we may say that it is your ‘functions’ that are recognised as a result of your work, not you. If someone who possesses greater ‘functions’ appears, the people around you will turn to that person. That is the principle of the marketplace, the principle of competition. As a result of that, you will never be able to get out of the vortex of competition and never gain a true sense of belonging.
You have not yet learned to like yourself. As a result, you cannot believe in others, you cannot believe in your students and are unable to embark on friend relationships. That is exactly why you are now trying to gain a sense of belonging through your work. You are trying to prove your worth by being successful in your work.
YOUTH: What is wrong with that? Recognition at work is recognition from society!
PHILOSOPHER: No. In principle, we may say that it is your ‘functions’ that are recognised as a result of your work, not you. If someone who possesses greater ‘functions’ appears, the people around you will turn to that person. That is the principle of the marketplace, the principle of competition. As a result of that, you will never be able to get out of the vortex of competition and never gain a true sense of belonging.
If you need to make something longer, don’t add more explanation, add more examples.
“A good example is worth twice as much as good advice” - Albert Schweitzer
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“A good example is worth twice as much as good advice” - Albert Schweitzer
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Today, you see 12 to 10 year old kids thoroughly bored, because they've seen the cosmos through their cell phone screens. They spend all their time on this, and just know everything by information, not by exploration, not by experience. This is a dangerous trend, and over time we are going to pay a huge price for it. A load of information, without any kind of experiences attached to it, can hugely cripple the human mind in the future. This is leading to a rise in suicides, and drugs are playing a significant role because people are trying to enhance their experience somehow, as everything has already been seen through information. We can't stop information because it has done wonderful things for us on one level. But on another level, it is going to extremes. It's not that technology is a bad thing, it's the way we use it. If you use it in one way, it turns against you; if you use it in another way, it benefits you. I think it's up to individual families and parents to bring some sense of balance.
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