"I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. Is helping others less valuable to you? Not worth your effort?"

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Consider the many different purposes that conversation can serve. Of course, we speak with others – and to ourselves! – to impart information. But we also exchange words to ask questions, forge connections, vent emotions, change attitudes, gain status, urge action, share stories, pass the time, advise, amuse, comfort, challenge, and much, much more. Examining what makes conversation work, and looking at how philosophers have thought about conversation, opens a window on to how language functions and how we function with language.

Why Do We Exchange Words?

British philosophers from the 18th century, who were fixated on impressions and ideas, would have taken successful conversations to be those that moved the relevant cluster of ideas from one conversant’s head to another’s. This idea, though tempting, turns out to be inadequate. The problem of other minds suggests we can never entirely confirm uptake: what could show that another had fully grasped our meaning?

Is Successful Conversation The Mere Moving Of Ideas?

Notions of conversation as a moving of ideas generally take words to be straightforwardly labels for things in the world and to parse sentences using a correspondence theory of truth that takes true sentences to match or refer to states of affairs that they describe. These expectations are quickly defeated as we can easily assemble a list of meaningful words that do not label individual things in the world in a straightforward manner. Consider: dog, politics, jumping, electron, gravity, centaur, square circle… So our understanding of words and what we do with them must be more complex.

Words Always Have A Meaning. Or Many. 

The context in which utterances are delivered has a crucial bearing on their significance. To borrow a vivid example from Robert Stecker, the exhortation “The bus is coming” can signify radically different things depending on the context. If we are late and the bus is arriving, I am urging you to sprint towards the bus stop. If we are at the bus stop already and you are standing in the street as the bus approaches, I am warning you to leap away before you are flattened. A variety of other factors – such as irony, satire and common idioms – can also displace words from their traditional meaning

Words Always Have A Context. Or Many. 

Accounting for such complexities, Anglophone philosophers in the mid-20th century attempted to analyse verbal communication in greater detail. J L Austin’s book How to Do Things with Words (1962) distinguished three different sorts of speech acts, that is, three different ways we can put language to use. He labelled them locutionary (saying something meaningful), illocutionary (what you intend by saying something; its “force” in Austin’s jargon), and perlocutionary acts.

The 3 Sorts Of Speech Acts

This latter class is the most radical. It involves using words to accomplish something specific in the world. Examples include binding yourself to another by uttering “I promise” or becoming married by uttering “I do.”The expected consequences can unfurl only when certain conditions are met: think of the many surprises that can invalidate a marriage ceremony.Austin’s taxonomy of our speech acts goes some way towards illuminating what is happening in conversation, but it doesn’t answer the question of what makes for a successful conversation.

Perlocutionary Acts Of Speech 

Another British philosopher, H P Grice, noted in 1975 that successful conversation is a cooperative enterprise rather than a series of disconnected remarks. Certain shared expectations are in place greasing the skids of our conversational give and take. In particular, he announced a “cooperative principle”: “make your conversational contribution such as is required at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.”

The Cooperative Principle Of Successful Conversation 

The cooperative principle is observed by following four maxims: of quantity (be informative), quality (be truthful), relation (be relevant) and manner (be clear). For Grice, we communicate by intending that others recognize our intentions to do so. Communication can be undermined if we violate any or all of the maxims – if we offer less information than is required or too much information that distracts; if we make false claims or claims for which we lack evidential support; if we embark on tangents; if we formulate obscure or ambiguous remarks; if we are prolix or disorganized.

The 4 Maxims Of The Cooperative Principle

Following Grice’s maxims helps ensure that our utterances convey the meaning we intended. But this is far from guaranteeing conversational success. Not only must the speaker choose her words properly, but her conversant must be open to receiving them. So what makes for a receptive interlocutor? It helps to be willing, deferential, interested, intrigued. We valorise conversations when we speak of them as flowing.

We Are Transmitters, We Are Receivers And We Are Transceivers

Grice’s emphasis on cooperation is crucial. Both parties to a conversation must want it to succeed. He posits a structure of mirrored and iterated intentions that facilitate conversational exchange. Working together, conversants can explore a subject matter or perform a task. Of course the division of labour will never be exactly equal. But successful and satisfying conversation results when participants share a communicative goal, enjoy a minimal match of manner and style, and accommodate one another’s interests, moods and needs.

For A Conversation To Work, We Must Really Want It To Work

The conditions of “share-enjoy-accomodate” do sometimes obtain. Granted, people differ in their levels of conversational engagement. Some are taciturn and need to be drawn out, others are prone to logorrhea and hog verbal space. Interest, admiration, and attraction can all facilitate conversational give and take. There were certain European institutions – the salons and coffeehouses of 17th- and 18th-century Paris and London – where bravura conversation was foregrounded. Even today, it can be fun to engage in a conversation where participants riff on a theme like jazz players performing solos.

Conversational Engagement And Conversational Give-And-Take

While some successful speakers seek to build up their conversational partners, others aim to belittle. Different attitudes towards a subject matter, different levels of knowledge, differences in how one’s day is going can all affect conversational flow. Someone who is especially knowledgeable or especially entertaining merits attentive listening, but not someone out to assuage her ego or score points. Certain purposes and certain conversational styles are inimical to satisfactory conversation. And there are some chasms that simply can’t be bridged.

Why Do Some Conversations Seem Pleasant, And Others Off-putting?

Imbalances of power are especially likely to taint these efforts. Power differentials between conversants play a key role in who speaks, who listens. Gender is clearly relevant since power is not equally distributed across this dimension. Deborah Tannen, the linguist and author of multiple books on conversation, frames her bestseller You Just Don’t Understand (1990) by claiming that conversations between men and women closely resemble anthropologists’ accounts of cross-cultural exchanges. That is, men and women inhabit different worlds with starkly different values and expectations.

Obstacles To Conversation: Power

Tannen proposes that women view conversation as an opportunity to network and connect, while men instead talk in order to gain status and put others down. Of course, there are exceptions to this brusque generalisation, but Tannen offers evidence, both real-life examples and cases from fiction, to show that her framework often holds true. Exploring the phenomenon she calls “troubles talk”, she says that men generally try to offer a quick fix for whatever problem is being broached, while women tend to respond in the first person, telling of their own experiences that resemble the problem.

The “Troubles Talk”

One habit threatens to sink cooperation perhaps more than any other: the phenomenon of being talked at. We often defer to experts, acknowledging their greater or special life experience. But being talked at is different: it’s belittling. It treats the listener as an acolyte instead of a conversant. Rebecca Solnit’s boom Men Explain Things to Me (2008) presents an extreme version of this phenomenon. At a dinner party, a man held forth at great and unwelcome length about a book he thought she could profit from reading. It turned out that she was in fact its author!

Being “Talked At”

Obstacles to conversation are not all immediately apparent, as is the case with micro-aggressions. The conflict management specialist Mary Rowe in 2008 introduced a useful companion category, called “micro-affirmations”, those “apparently small acts, which are often ephemeral and hard to see … which occur wherever people wish to help others to succeed. [They] are tiny acts of opening doors to opportunity, gestures of inclusion and caring, and graceful acts of listening.”

Obstacles To Conversation: Aggressions And Affirmations

But not all have seen micro-affirmations as welcome. The philosopher Jill Delston, for instance, argues that they can harm when doled out inequitably and can accord undue influence to those who habitually dispense them. The idea of what makes for a successful conversation is always tricky, and always contested.

“You’re Welcome” “Oh, But I Didn’t Thank You”

Whatever makes for good conversation, we can agree that it should be valued. As such, we should all find ways to enhance our conversational skills. One way to do that is what we’ve done here: to reflect on the features of satisfying, illuminating, thought-provoking, caring, searching, memorable conversation – which is, after all, the very best tool we have to create lasting bonds between one another.

The Art Of Meta-Conversation

“Sometimes, the best adventure is simply a conversation.”

The idea of what makes for a successful conversation is always tricky, and has always been contested by philosophers

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How Do Good Conversations Work? Philosophy Has Something To Say. 

The story is set in a universe where there are 2 sister planets, which run on completely different ideologies:<ul><li>Urras: an Earth-like planet, with many states, the most powerful one described as a capitalist one</li><li>Anarres is an arid planet with an anarchic society: no rulers, no private property, and no government. </li></ul>The story follows  Shevek, a brilliant temporal physicist from Anarres. We follow him growing up on Anarres and on a trip to Urras, in a series of alternating chapters. Each chapter is a philosophical exploration of concepts such as freedom, love, or property.

The Premise of the Dispossessed

Half of the alternating chapters deal with Shevek growing up on Anarres, becoming a top scientist ... only to discover the utopian anarchy suffers from a lack of innovation, maintaining the status quo with social norms.Having no chance to develop his theory on Anarres, Shevek travels to capitalist Urras, where science is much more developed and he is treated as a hero. But he soon finds out the regime was simply trying to take advantage of him and use his theories for economic and military benefit. He makes his discoveries available to everyone and escapes back to Anarres.

The Story of Shevek

Ursula Le Guin may seem to be promoting a credible anarchist utopia. Especially to the progressive liberal audience, she was influenced by and also influential to. As an antidote to the excesses of a capitalist system. But here opposing systems are not perfect. <ul><li>Anarres is stuck in a form of religious devotion to the system that there is no development. Most people are also quite miserable. </li><li>Urras looks much more like a fascist state than a capitalist utopia. </li></ul>It is not clear if Le Guin was straw-manning the capitalist system or if she attempted an analysis of the concept of freedom.

Anarchy, an Ambiguous Utopia

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

"You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."

It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. There is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. The hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

A young Shevek and his friends are uncertain of how to make a “real” prison and grasp at approximations of one as they play at incarcerating one another. The scenario plays similar to the Standford experiment.As some of the play guardians started to display masochistic behavior, Shevek noticed:"At first we were playing a game, but now the game plays us."

The mimetics of behavior

One of the best written novels. It is SF because it has ships and stuff. But a philosophical book from start to finish. 

An astonishing tale of one man's search for Utopia.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.

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The Dispossessed

The 3 major components of trust are: Authenticity, Empathy and LogicIf you sense that I am being authentic, you are much more likely to trust me. If you sense that I have real rigor in my logic, you are far more likely to trust me. And if you believe that my empathy is directed towards you, you are far more likely to trust me. When all three of these things are working, we have great trust. But if any one of these three gets shaky, if any one of these three wobbles, trust is threatened.

3 Pillars of Trust

People just don't believe that we're mostly in it for them, and they believe that we're too self-distracted. And it's no wonder. So here's the prescription: identify where, when and to whom you are likely to offer your distraction. That should trace pretty perfectly to when, where, and to whom you are likely to withhold your empathy.And if in those instances, we can come up with a trigger that gets us to look up, look at the people right in front of us, listen to them, deeply immerse ourselves in their perspectives, then we have a chance of having a sturdy leg of empathy.

When your empathy wobbles

It's often the case that our logic is sound, but it's our ability to communicate the logic that is in jeopardy. Super fortunately, there's a very easy fix to this.Start with your point in a crisp half-sentence, and then give your supporting evidence. This means that people will be able to get access to our awesome ideas, and just as importantly, if you get cut off before you're done, you still get credit for the idea, as opposed to someone else coming in and snatching it from you.

When your logic wobbles

We as a human species can sniff out in a moment, literally in a moment, whether or not someone is being their authentic true self. So in many ways, the prescription is clear. You don't want to have an authenticity wobble? Be you. Great. And that is super easy to do when you're around people who are like you.But if you represent any sort of difference, the prescription to "be you" can be super challenging.Wear whatever makes you feel fabulous. Pay less attention to what you think people want to hear from you and far more attention to what your authentic, awesome self needs to say.

When your authenticity wobbles

What if trust is broken despite our best effort at managing and building trust? Here are some ideas on how to handle that 😊

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it -- something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. "If we can learn to trust one another more, we can have unprecedented human progress," Frei says.

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Frances Frei: How to build (and rebuild) trust

Causally, Noise is nowhere, statistically, it is everywhere. You find it difficult to connect the dots in the present time. You connect the dots only by looking backwards. ~Sentencing decisions~Underwriting Premiums~Euphoria & Panic in Stock Markets All are the same. Book: Noise - A Flaw in Human Judgement #selfhelp #growthmindset #mindset #thinking #lifehack

The Invisibility Of Noise Is A Direct Consequence Of Casual Thin

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Noise may be the most important book I've read in more than a decade. A genuinely new idea so exceedingly important you will immediately put it into practice. A masterpiece’ Angela Duckworth, author of Grit ‘An absolutely brilliant investigation of a massive societal problem that has been hiding in plain sight’ Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think. We like to think we make decisions based on good reasoning – and that our doctors, judges, politicians, economic forecasters and employers do too. In this groundbreaking book, three world-leading behavioural scientists come together to assess the last great fault in our collective decision-making: noise. We all make bad judgements more than we think. Noise shows us what we can do to make better ones.

Daniel Kahneman (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982), and developed Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory. Currently, he is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology.

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Noise

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

We often find ways to scare ourselves into inaction or inappropriate action based on what we think might be happening. That is our imagination fearing the worst. But how often is it really that bad?

Thought of The Day - October 6, 2022

To learn anything:<ul><li>Step 1: Identify a topic</li><li>Step 2: Try to explain it to a 5-year-old</li><li>Step 3: Study to fill in knowledge gaps</li><li>Step 4: Organize, convey, and review.</li></ul>True genius is the ability to simplify, not complicate.

The Feynman Technique

The goal is to minimize the number of regrets in life.When faced with a difficult decision:<ol><li>Project into the future.</li><li>Look back on the decision.</li><li>Ask "Will I regret not doing this?"</li><li>Act accordingly.</li></ol>

The Regret Minimization Framework

Learn the difference between urgent and important.Place tasks on a 2x2 matrix:<ul><li>Important & Urgent</li><li>Important & Not Urgent</li><li>Not Important & Urgent</li><li>Not Important & Not Urgent.</li></ul>Prioritize, delegate, or delete accordingly.

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix

These are:<ul><li>Financial (money)</li><li>Social (relationships)</li><li>Physical (health)</li><li>Mental (health, knowledge, faith)</li><li>Time (freedom).</li></ul>Money is NOT the only type of wealth. The pursuit of financial wealth can rob you of the others.

The 5 Types of Wealth

<ul><li>Black Lines = Paths Closed</li><li>Green Lines = Paths Open</li></ul>Stop focusing on the black lines behind you. Start focusing on all of the green lines before you. It is a future with immense opportunity.

Green Lines vs. Black Lines

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.When you establish fixed hours, you find unproductive ways to fill them. Work more, get less done.If your goal is to do inspired, creative work, work like a lion instead: Sprint. Eat. Rest. Repeat.

Parkinson’s Law

When faced with chaos, ask yourself whether you're a local or a tourist.Tourists flee bad weather. Locals are aware of the season's change.Play games where you're a local. Never be a "Stubborn Local”—ignoring evidence that something has fundamentally changed.

Local vs. Tourist

Extraordinary achievements are often just the result of a large volume of tiny actions.Small things become big things.

Compounding

Imagine a rock is thrown into a lake. The splash is the first-order effect—the ripples are the second-order effect.The world is filled with first-order thinkers. Dig deeper—ask "and then what?” Second-order thinkers will always be in short supply.

Second-Order Thinking

You have to put in more effort to make something appear effortless.Effortless, elegant performances are simply the result of a large volume of consistent, effortful practice. Simple is not simple.

The Paradox of Effort

The energy required to refute bullshit is much larger than the energy required to produce it.This is why BS spreads so easily—especially on social media. It's also why we need to make a deliberate effort to fight back against it.

BS Asymmetry Principle

Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners.<ul><li>Friends are easy to come by.</li><li>Intellectual sparring partners are harder to find. They will call you on your BS, question your assumptions, and push you to think deeply.</li></ul>

Intellectual Sparring Partners

<ul><li>Occam's Razor: The simplest explanation is often the best one.</li><li>Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.</li><li>Hitchens' Razor: Anything asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.</li></ul>

The Big 3 Razors

Much of what we call "luck" is the macro result of 1,000s of micro-actions.<ul><li>Your habits put you in a position where luck is more likely to strike.</li><li>If you want to create more luck, increase your luck surface area.</li><li>Open up the aperture to let more luck in.</li></ul>

Luck Surface Area

When faced with two options, choose the one that’s more difficult in the short term. Naval calls this making "uphill decisions”.It requires a forced override of your pain avoidance instinct. It's worth it—short-term pain creates compounding long-term gain.

Uphill Decisions

<ul><li>The British offered bounties for cobra heads—so locals bred cobras to turn in their heads.</li><li>A policy designed to reduce the cobra population had the opposite effect.</li></ul>Lesson: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

The Cobra Effect

Tiny deviations are amplified by distance and time.A 1-degree error in heading will cause a plane to miss its target by 1 mile for every 60 miles flown.Small miss now = large miss later. Always make real-time course corrections and adjustments.

The 1-in-60 Rule

Observe the weekend projects of the smartest people in your circles. Odds are those will become a key part of our future.Invest accordingly.

The Weekend Test

<ul><li>Old Way: Learn to Play.</li><li>New Way: Play to Learn.</li></ul>We are living in an unprecedented era—historical boundaries are being broken, enabling anyone to participate.If you're trying to learn anything new, insert yourself into the game. It's the only way.

Play to Learn

Skin in the Game means that the key principals participate in both the upside and downside associated with any decisions.<ul><li>Always look for its presence in any new situation.</li><li>Avoid games where those making the rules don't have any skin in the game.</li></ul>

Skin in the Game

Jerry Seinfeld hangs a calendar on the wall and uses a red marker to put an X over every day that he completes his daily writing.It's not about quality, it's about consistency. If you want to improve at anything:<ul><li>30 days</li><li>30 min per day</li></ul>Build the habit.

30-for-30 Plan

Asking great questions uncovers the truth—bias for action builds upon it.The four quadrants:<ul><li>Q1: World-changers (rare!)</li><li>Q2: Grinders/hustlers</li><li>Q3: Philosophers/thinkers</li><li>Q4: Dead zone</li></ul>Invest behind Q1s, hire more Q2s, spend time with Q3s, and avoid Q4s.

Question-Action Matrix

Your Zone of Genius is where your interests, passions, and skills align.<ul><li>Operating in your Zone of Genius means playing games you are uniquely well-suited to win.</li><li>Once you identify it, you can stop playing "their" games and start playing "yours".</li></ul>

Zone of Genius

Frameworks for thinking

”You’ll laugh at your fears when you find out who you are.”

A seminal series from a legendary creator. Dragon Ball, a wry update on the Chinese "Monkey King" myth, introduces us to Son Go Son Goku, a young monkey-tailed boy whose quiet life is turned upside-down when he meets Bulma, a girl determined to collect the seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and to get them she needs the help of a certain super-strong boy. The VIZBIG edition of Dragon Ball contains volumes 1-3, bonus color content and updated text. Before there was Dragon Ball Z, there was Akira Toriyama's action epic Dragon Ball, starring the younger version of Son Goku and all the other Dragon Ball Z heroes! Meet a naive young monkey-tailed boy named Goku, whose quiet life changes when he meets Bulma, a girl who is on a quest to collect seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and Bulma needs Goku's help (and his super-strength)! With a magic staff for a weapon and a flying cloud for a ride, Goku sets out on the adventure of a lifetime...

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Change your perspective: get BIG A seminal series from a legendary creator. Dragon Ball, a wry update on the Chinese "Monkey King" myth, introduces us to Son Goku, a young monkey-tailed boy whose quiet life is turned upside-down when he meets Bulma, a girl determined to collect the seven "Dragon Balls." If she gathers them all, an incredibly powerful dragon will appear and grant her one wish. But the precious orbs are scattered all over the world, and to get them she needs the help of a certain super-strong boy... A Collection of Volumes 1 - 3! Legend has it that if all seven of the precious orbs called "Dragon Balls" are gathered together, an incredibly powerful dragon god will appear to grant one wish. Unfortunately, the orbs are scattered across the world, making them extremely difficult to collect. Enter 16-year-old Bulma, a scientific genius who has constructed a radar to detect the exact locations of the Dragon Balls. She's on a mission to find all seven orbs, but first she must convince young Son Goku to join her on her quest. With a monkey tail, super-human strength, and a magic staff for a weapon, Son Goku's ready to set out on the adventure of a lifetime...

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Dragon Ball, Vol. 1 (VIZBIG Edition)

The whole saga of stupendous journey's of Lord Ram is said to be as Ramayana. He was born to the King Dasharatha of Ayodhya and Kautilya. Brought up as a divine, stunning & charming soul was also possed by great fighting abilities taught by his Guru Vishwamitra

Backstory Of The Great Beloved King 

Kaikeyi the mother of second son of King Dashratha named Bharata, was once mind-stabbed by her evil maid Manthara when the Lord Ram was declared as the next king by his father. She urged Kaikeyi to use her boon gifted by King Dashratha.Kaikeyi rooked by her maid asked the King for the boon. The king trapped by his words accepted the boon to sent Lord Ram for 14 yrs of exile and made Bharata as the next king of Ayodhya.

Cost Of 14 Yrs Exile

Lord Ram along with his wife Sita and brother Laxman went to gaze the forest life. They moved to Panchavati as suggested by Muni Agasthya.Supranakha the sister of Ravana, once went to confirm whatever she had heard about the pure look of Lord Ram. When came near, stunned by the divine soul sought to devour Sita and marry Lord Ram, Laxman abruptly cut her nose shoved her off.

Spark By Supranakha 

Raged by the state of Supranakha, Ravana decided to abduct Sita and marry her as heard about her alluring and pleasing look. Ravana along with his uncle maaricha went to carry on his sinful deed. Maaricha manifested itself into a golden Deer to locomote Lord Ram away from his residence. Then the demon called out for help in voice of Lord Ram, tricking Laxman for looking out for Lord Ram. Then Ravana disguised himself as a sage to ask for some food to Sita. Unable to cross the Laxman-Rekha made by Laxman, sage asked the Sita to cross it, Sita for her kindness did it and got captured by Ravana.

Abduction by Ravans

Lord Ram and Laxman on the way found out a injured vulture named Jatayu, holding on to his last breath was slashed by Ravana while saving Sita.They defeated demon mountain Kabandha and freed him from the curse, who told them to find Sugreev in Rishyamukh Mountain.King Sugreev was outthrown by his brother Vali from his kingdom and captured his wife.

Tale For Finding The Beloved SITA

Sugreev made a deal with Lord Ram and recaptured the King Vali. Sugreev as promised send his army across all 4 directions to find the throne of Ravana.They then met Sampaati who told about Ravana's origin. Jaldevi then pleased Lord Ram to write his name on the rocks, they would float. They made a bridge named Ram Setu out of stones.

Hands Of Help

Lord Rama asked the King of Lanka to still accept his defeat and return Sita safely to him. Ravana rejected the statement and a fiercerful battle rose on the terrains of Lanka, but Ravana was finally defeated as advised by his brother Vibhishana.

Downstriking the Throne Of Ravana 

This is the most criticized and grieved part of Ramayana, when Lord Ram met Sita she was asked for a Agnipariksha, which is done in order to test the character of a women with their adulterous wisdom. As Sita heard Lord Ram about his intention she went in deep sorrow and misery and pleased not to hurt her of this dreadful act.Lord Ram explained that the test for chastity is necessary as he himself would trust her but the rest of the world won't.

Grieve For Chastity

"You could grieve for your circumstances or could simply give the test and prove your potential"

"You could either grieve on circumstances or simply go through the tests and prove your potential"

Ram Avatar - Seventh Avatar Of Vishnu Lord Rama is one of the most adored gods in India. He is depicted holding a bow and arrow indicating his readiness to destroy evils. His story forms the epic Ramayana. Lord Rama can be simply described as a man who displays perfect moral as well as social behaviour. Lord Rama, in the words of Swami Vivekananda, is “the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband and above all, the ideal king”. He is a symbol of the victory of right over the evil. He is perfect in every aspect and is often referred as Maryada Purushottam meaning “the one who is the supreme man”. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Please Like, Share and Subscribe our videos.*** Press the bell button to stay notified about our new videos! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: 1. Some parts from this video like music, pictures and videos are sourced from the web. The Hindu Saga does not declare any ownership and is ready to give the rights to whoever it is due. 2. Multiple sources have been referred to create the content and story for the videos and we try our best to produce good content that seems authentic to our knowledge, however, we do not confirm the authenticity of the content and stories shared on channel. 3. Some of the links are affiliate links, which means if you use that link to buy something, I get a small kickback at no extra cost to you. :) #TheHinduSaga #IndianHistory #HinduHistory #Hinduism #IndianMythology #HinduMythology #HinduGods #ReligionExplained

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Ram Avatar - Seventh Avatar Of Vishnu

Lord Rama is one of the most adored gods in India. He is depicted holding a bow and arrow indicating his readiness to destroy evils. His story forms the epic Ramayana. Lord Rama can be simply described as a man who displays perfect moral as well as social behaviour. Lord Rama, in the words of Swami Vivekananda, is “the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband and above all, the ideal king”. He is a symbol of the victory of right over the evil. He is perfect in every aspect and is often referred as Maryada Purushottam meaning “the one who is the supreme man”.

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I guess a subtle one is them treating you differently in public vs how they treat you privately. These can both go either way.

Always talking shit about other people when they aren’t around.

When telling you about issues in their life and everything is everyone else’s fault/ no accountability

How someone treats another person based on their job title. Anyone who treats a server, maid, garbage person, etc like crap is just telling the world how much a piece they are.

When you express a boundary, they try to guilt trip you, pressure you, or threaten you to try and force you to do things you don’t want to do.

Treating people well only if they can benefit from them in some way. If they treat you well, but treat random people like shit, they aren't good people. And they'll treat you like shit too if you ever stop being of use to them.

If they brag about how they pulled a fast one on other people. As if to say how smart/slick they are and everyone else is stupid.

They never apologize.

It's always about them. They're always the hero or always the victim in their stories.Can't take criticism but probably dish it out to everyone else. They're never wrong.

They remember you are their friend only when they need something from you.

Nothing is ever their fault.

They constantly say or do things where their only justification for doing so is "It was just a joke" when called out on it.

When they cannot bring themselves to celebrate someone else’s success.

A lot of times they’ll straight up tell you. Anybody who gleefully tells you “I’m such an asshole” or “I’m such a bi*ch” is usually not joking, even if they say it while laughing.

Throwing trash out of a car window, littering

Treats animals poorly

So this should be obvious but it's not. As a guy, don't trust another guy if he cheats on his spouse. If he'll betray the closest person to him, he doesn't care about his friends either, trust me

Seem easy to spot "bad" people right? Not always I guess. Reddit is really a treasure if you know what to look after. Thousand of folks gave their thoughts, and voted on other's. Ideas kind of make sense, by sheer statistical number, from people's perspective.

r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions.

What's a giveaway that someone isn't a good person?

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