Claiming moral high ground to discredit someone’s argument or dismiss their perspective is the easiest way to spot it. People want to follow others who have high morals. So to show superior moral competency to another party is a good use of moral high ground.<ul><li>undermine perspectives</li><li>dismiss ideas</li><li>manipulate the argument </li></ul>

Moral High Ground

Committing to a popular moral cause often displays yourself as a more virtuous person. Even if the sole purpose of supporting the cause was publicity, you wouldn’t know. (Such causes might include: BLM, Palestine, LGBTQ campaigns, and so forth.)<ul><li>supporting causes to look more virtuous </li><li>is a form of publicity and doesn’t necessarily show true virtue </li><li>It’s trending, so you’ll look better supporting the current thing</li></ul>

Virtue Signaling

Shaming and guilt can be very dangerous, because it stems from weaponizing someone else’s virtue and using it against them. By reminding someone of their own shortcomings and faults with their virtues it undermines them. (Basically calling someone hypocritical for not being a virtuous person themselves)<ul><li>Use someone’s own ideals against them</li><li>Emotionally put down opposing parties</li><li>Degrade opposition to look better</li></ul>

Shaming And Guilt

By pretending or acting to be a kind or virtuous person, you leverage others trust for personal gain. If used on opposing parties, this can create a form of debt or obligation that can be taken advantage of later.<ul><li>Display false virtue</li><li>Leverage trust</li><li>Create debt or obligations</li></ul>

Manipulative Altruism

By setting a moral standard much higher than what can be achieved, you downgrade everyone who can’t meet that standard. From there, you can criticize or punish these shortcomings.<ul><li>Unrealistic expectations </li><li>Set them up to fail </li><li>Downgrade the masses rather than one individual at a time</li></ul>

Predestined Shortcomings

By demonstrating that you’re more affluent in a particular moral understanding, you display superiority and make it difficult for people to argue with your moral actions because they are under the assumption that you stand on a higher echelon of understanding. <ul><li>Prevent criticism </li><li>Demonstrate moral competency </li><li>Gain a more favorable reputation</li></ul>

Exclusivity Of Moral Understanding

Learn how virtue can be weaponized. This is used in very subtle ways in our everyday life, learn how to spot them or even use them for personal gain.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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How to Weaponize Virtue

Recognize that striving for constant virtue can lead to rigidity. Allow yourself to make mistakes and learn from them.

Embrace Imperfection

Incorporate humor and play into your life. It can foster creativity and help you navigate challenges with a lighter heart.

Cultivate Playfulness

Be wary of becoming overly moralistic. Understand that everyone has flaws and that compassion often requires acknowledging our shared humanity.

Avoid Self-Righteousness

While discipline is important, don't forget to be spontaneous and flexible. This balance can lead to a more fulfilling and adaptable life.

Balance Discipline with Spontaneity

Be true to yourself. Authenticity comes from acknowledging and integrating all aspects of your personality, including the mischievous parts.

Foster Authenticity

Understand and accept both the light and shadow aspects of your personality. This integration can lead to greater self-awareness and personal growth.

Integrate Light and Shadow

Engage in harmless pranks or acts of whimsy that bring joy to others. This can strengthen relationships and create shared positive experiences.

Practice Compassionate Mischief

Don't be afraid to question societal norms and expectations. Sometimes, bending rules can lead to innovative solutions and progress.

Question Rigid Norms

Approach life with curiosity and openness, as if seeing things for the first time. This mindset can help you remain adaptable and open to new experiences.

Maintain a Beginner's Mind

While it's important to take responsibilities seriously, balance it with a sense of humor and light-heartedness to avoid burnout and maintain perspective.

Balance Seriousness with Light-heartedness

Appreciate the diverse traits in yourself and others. This can lead to richer interactions and a deeper understanding of human nature.

Celebrate Diversity in Character

Regularly reflect on your actions and motivations. This can help you maintain a balance between your benevolent and mischievous tendencies.

Engage in Reflective Practices

Use creative outlets to express both your orderly and playful sides. This can lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Encourage Creative Expression

Cultivate friendships with people who exhibit a range of traits. This can help you appreciate different perspectives and enhance your own balance.

Nurture Relationships with Varied Personalities

Strive to live in a way that is true to your values and desires, even if it means occasionally going against the grain. Authenticity often leads to greater happiness and fulfillment.

Live Authentically

In conclusion, Alan Watts' philosophy urges us to accept our flaws, infuse life with humor, and avoid moral rigidity. Balancing structure with spontaneity, being true to ourselves, and embracing all parts of our personality are vital. Questioning norms, staying curious, and blending seriousness with light-heartedness enrich our lives. Reflecting on our actions, expressing creativity, building diverse relationships, and living authentically lead to greater fulfillment and personal growth.

The Conclusion

Alan Watts advocated balancing beneficence and rascality for a healthy life. Excessive virtue can lead to rigidity, while playful rascality promotes flexibility, creativity, and authenticity. Embracing the full spectrum of human nature helps achieve harmony between order and mischief.

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Communication can be difficult, especially when people don't understand what you're saying. Unfortunately, they may respond with rudeness or negative comments to try to hurt you. But, remember that it's their own insecurities and lack of self-awareness that lead them to act this way.<ul><li>They may not be interested in or value the same things as you.</li><li>They may say rude things to hurt you</li></ul>

The Power of Understanding Others and Dealing with Rudeness

People may be unkind if they don't understand you. This shows their weaknesses and lack of self-awareness.

To handle these situations, try to stay calm and kind. It's important to understand that their behavior is not a reflection of you, but rather their own struggles. Be patient and remind yourself that you don't need to prove anything to them. Focus on staying true to yourself and don't let their negativity weigh you down.<ul><li>Don't take their actions personally</li><li>Stay calm and kind</li><li>Don't let their negativity affect you</li></ul>

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If people don't understand you.. just understand them more!

ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IT SAYS MORE ABOUT THEM AND LESS ABOUT YOU

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"Cu si guardà si sarvà""He who watches himself is saved"(Do not expose yourself unnecessarily to risks and dangers)

"Cu taci acconsenti""Those who remain silent show consensus"(Not responding is equivalent to accepting what others have said)

"Ognuno tira acqua pi lu so mulinu""Everyone pulls grist to their own mill"(Everyone looks after their own interests)

"Ogni mpidimentu è giuvamentu""Every impediment is an advantage"(The obstacles to our projects sometimes prove positive)

"Occhi aperti e piedi n terra""Eyes open and feet on the ground"(Evaluate the situation carefully before acting)

"Occhj c'atu fattu chjanciri, chjanciti pena nun mi veni siddru lacrimati""Eyes that made to cry, need to cry, I don't mind if they cry"(Don't feel pity for those who have been cruel)

"Ogni lassata è pirduta""Everything left behind is lost"(We must take advantage of every opportunity)

"Ogni tintu scarafagljeddru a so ma' cci pari beddru""Every ugly cockroach looks beautiful to its mother"(One's children are the height of beauty for the mother)

"Omu avvisatu, mezzu sarvatu""Forewarned is forearmed"

"Quannu lu diavulu t'accarizza voli l'arma""When the devil caresses you, he wants your soul"(Flatterers hide their interests with apparent sincerity)

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

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You’ve got to stop setting goals, and set sacrifices instead. Everybody always sets their goals: “I’m going to make $ 100.000; I’m going to lose 20 lbs. No, you’re not. You’re only going to do it, if you’re willing to pay the price. Every single goal you have, has a price that is required. It is an entry fee at the door of success. So the question really is:what are you going to give up to get it?

I will not _________, until I __________.

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Ego can be mistaken for false confidence, using your words to cover up you flaws is no way to develop a confident mindset.

Ego Is The Enemy

We often talk about pride being a bad thing, but it’s the easiest way to become confident. Confidence comes from the pride in yourself and the fact that you are who you say you are. If you haven’t accomplished anything worth being proud about, you simply won’t be confident. You reap what you sow, so don’t be fooled by yourself when you don’t put in the work.

Being Proud Of Who You Are

On your path to confidence, you’ll need some accountability. Following through on your word is essential. You set a goal to train at a certain time? You train at that time.you set a goal to lose 5 pounds this week? You lose the weight.nothing will hurt your pride more than knowing you failed yourself.

Regressive Actions

You’ve probably achieved a goal at one point or another, and it feels great. The more goals you hit, the more confidence you’ll have in yourself.

Achieving The Goals You Set

How do people perceive you? When you dress the part, you act the part. Start dressing like you mean something.

Public Image

Who do you look up to? You probably look up to them for a reason. Is it the way they talk? Is it how they dress, emulate the things that make these role models so great in your mind.

Role Models

What do you stand for? What do you believe in?Why do you care?A lack of personal identity holds you back. You’ll need to dive into why you do the things you do, and the deeper issues you might be facing.

Authenticity

Ego is false confidence.Achieve something worth being proud about.Have some accountability for you actions and stop making the wrong decisions.Follow through on your word and hit the goals that you set.Look and dress the part, start acting like the person you want to become today.Model other people when learning who you want to be more like.Ask yourself the difficult questions and find out who you are under all those layers.

Conclusion

Confidence doesn’t come from 15 minute YouTube videos. It’s something that takes time and hard work to develop. This is your guide to becoming confident in your life.

Confidence in 7 Steps. 

You are not a procastinator, you have a habit of procastinating. There is a big difference. With science habits can be broken.

You Are Not A Procastinator

The moment you find yourself wanting to do something else instead of your task, recognize it. The trigger in case of procastination is always stress. Procastination will only bring more stress.

<ol><li>Recognize you are stressed</li><li>count: 5-4-3-2-1 to make your brain conscious and to break the pattern</li><li>start doing 5 minutes of the work. </li></ol>

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Do, or do not. There is no try.

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

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To pretend to be something that one is notLet's say you have a favorite color, like blue, but your friend really likes red. If you tell your friend that you like red too, even though you don't really, that's being fake. It's like pretending to be something you're not. Being fake means not being honest about what you really think or feel. It's important to be honest with yourself and others, but sometimes we might say things we don't really mean to be polite or avoid hurting someone's feelings, to be kind to others.

Fake

Example: Introvert problemFake or rude in people's eyes. It's a choice to appear fake, or else you appear rude and unfriendly to people, so choose it!<ul><li>Doing what you don't like or don't want to do = fake</li><li>Doing what you like or want to do = rude, unfriendly</li></ul>Either way, people have a negative view of us. No matter what we do, anyway!But sometimes you have to fake it! or else you aren't stepping out of your comfort zone.

Is it really called fake?

Or is it considered fake if people are just different from us? They may not understand us, and they may even call us fake.

Fake or just don't understand? or it different from you

If something is different or hard to understand for us, we may call it fake.

So instead of thinking negatively and calling it fake, change your perspective, see differently, and view it more positively. Then you can call it a balanced way or stepping out of your comfort zone and self-growth.It just depends on how you see it, either negative or positive.

Think again! More positive & See different

Fake it to maintain our balance and push ourselves out of our comfort zone, or else be real, be rude and unkind, and just stay in our comfort zone

Embrace creativity and imagination by setting aside time each week for creative activities like drawing, writing, or playing music. Encourage children to engage in imaginative play and storytelling.

The Importance of Imagination

“Imaginary qualities imputed to a fellow creature!”

Show kindness and empathy in daily interactions. Volunteer for community service, listen actively to others, and practice random acts of kindness to make a positive impact on those around you.

The Value of Compassion

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Avoid reducing human experiences and emotions to mere facts and figures. Appreciate art, literature, and nature to foster a more rounded perspective. Take time to understand the emotional aspects of decision-making.

The Danger of Utilitarianism

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.”

Seek an education that includes arts and humanities, promoting critical thinking and creativity. Encourage children to ask questions and explore subjects beyond their curriculum.

Education Beyond Facts

“You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them.”

Strive for a balanced life by scheduling regular breaks, engaging in physical activities, and spending quality time with loved ones. Ensure that work does not overshadow personal well-being and leisure.

The Necessity of Balance

“She was a woman of orderly habits, and disciplined in all her ways.”

Recognize and respect the individuality of each person by listening to their perspectives and valuing their unique contributions. Avoid making generalizations and foster an inclusive environment at home and work.

Understanding Individuality

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Be mindful of the social and environmental impacts of industrial and economic activities by supporting sustainable practices and companies. Advocate for policies that protect workers' rights and the environment.

Critique of Industrialization

“It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it.”

Nurture and prioritize relationships with family and loved ones by dedicating time for family activities, maintaining open communication, and supporting each other’s endeavors.

Family and Relationships

“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.”

Maintain moral integrity by standing up for what is right, even in challenging situations. Lead by example, demonstrate honesty, and encourage ethical behavior in others.

The Role of Moral Integrity

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

Develop resilience by setting realistic goals, learning from failures, and seeking support when needed. Practice stress-management techniques like mindfulness and maintain a positive outlook.

Resilience in Adversity

"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"Hard Times" by Charles Dickens highlights the perils of industrialization and utilitarianism, showing dehumanization. Through vivid characters and a poignant narrative, it advocates empathy and a balance between reason and imagination, stressing the need for compassion in a changing world.

Dickens' satirical indictment of 19th century Utilitarianism “Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.” ― Charles Dickens, Hard Times Hard Times by Charles Dickens is his most unusual novel. It is substantially shorter than his others and is not set in London, but in a fictitious mil-town named Coketown. The novel follows the life of the young people and workers of Coketown as they seek to survive the utilitarian ideals manifest in the town. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

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