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Growth and Will
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In some ways we understand much more clearly how people can learn in adulthood by Active Deliberate choice. What we do not understand is why?
We are now confronted with the extraordinary mystery of the human Will.
Certain people seem to have been born with a strong will; a strong will is one of the two greatest blessings that can be bestowed upon a human being.
Strong willed people with the mysterious will to grow usually do well no matter the myth, situational Odds against or background.
They do not sit on their duffs and welcome justified confrontations as friend to the soul.
Having a Strong Will is like having a Dozen Clydesdales in your backyard.
These horses are massive and extremely strong.
When properly trained, disciplined, and harnessed with them you can literally move mountains.
The distinction between the properly harnessed and the improperly harnessed will is important.
Improperly trained, literally goes about life simply harnessed to self, lack disciplines, and as result generally only succeeds in knocking houses down.
On the flip side of this coin is the properly trained disciplined will, harnessed to a psychospiritual Power Higher and greater than self-proven to effectively move mountains over time.
Willingness identifies the disciplined strong, who will go where he or she is called or lead by a Higher Power in essence as love.
Love as will, extends oneself for Spiritual Growth or toward Another’s.
Genuinely Loving People are by Definition, Growing People.
The Capacity to Love is nurtured in one throughout life by Parent(s), Grace, or God’s Love.
Mysterious though it is the choice to actively learn as an adult and devote ones Will Consciously to Growth and Learning is the most Crucial Decision one ever makes in life.
The will of decision toward disciplined growth welcomes responsibility that comes with learning majoring in what does not come readily easy.
Mark of true active learner is Discernment by choice and made repeatedly.
The Decision; then becomes stronger and stronger as it is Remade and Remade and cement that choice.
My own personal style has been, for most of my life, learning from experience, and particularly through the Contemplations of my own life experiences.
That is why the contemplative is best described as someone who takes a bit of experience and Milks it for all it’s worth.
It’s not a simple matter of how much life experience one has BUT WHAT YOU DO WITH IT.
We all know individuals on paper that would appear to have accomplished many tasks or done this or that which seems to amount to a broad range of experience, but by demonstration seem as Naïve or Confused as ever.
Going around on paper as one experienced is worthless if one does not learn something about self and the rest of the world, that is why it is Important to be Alert not only to External but to Internal Experiences that serve Spiritual Growth as well.
Thus a Large Part of the Willingness to Learn must include Learning by Looking Within.
Specific to point is quote from philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, who said:
“A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of self. But sufferings direct a Man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.”
Ultimately, someone whose will resides other than on paper only becomes devoted toward learning and growth clearly in alignment with God’s Community Purpose.
Even Agnostic(s) whose will is other than money shows willingness’s to submit toward something they consider Greater Than Selves – perhaps the ideals of Love, Light, and TRUTH.
In the end, all these qualities have something to do with God.
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Out of Narcissism
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We have heard of people so self-centered they wonder how the world would manage to service without them.
For others Narcissism may not run this deep, but for each of us one of the most important things to learn and come to terms with is that the world does not simply revolve around any one of us.
- Narcissism can become Thinking Disorder.
- Advanced narcissism cannot nor will not think about other people.
- Growth out of terrible twos syndrome can only be accomplished when sufferer become more conscious, learns to consider others and think more about them which can build on self.
We do not know why people fail to grow out of narcissism, but is suspected failure begins at early age in vulnerable period of life which was an inevitably humiliating time.
The key to learning ones way out of narcissism is simply last century’s teachings concerning deep consideration other than self-first is the cure of insanity more than anything else.
Simply put: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you if you were in their particular, unique, and different shoes as two heads are better than one.
So, growing out of Narcissism allows for the process known as “COLLABORATION,” IN WHICH PEOPLE LABOR TOGETHER WITH WITS AS WELL AS BRAWN.
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Narcissistic common criminal thinking
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The bulk of critical theory on criminal thinking has been derived primarily from people who are incarcerated or have otherwise broken the law.
But there is often a thin line separating white collar crime from the rest of us.
Research on criminal thinking underscores the most common patterns of irrational thought that lead to disordered decisions.
Most common criminal thinking patterns are not so much convoluted as simplistic and one-dimensional.
One aspect of Criminal Thinking Patterns stands out most because of its Prevalence among noncriminal segments of the population.
It is an Attitude of Ownership, or what can be referred to as a Sense of Entitlement.
Inherent in this attitude is a Cockiness that borders Blatant Narcissism.
Those with Extreme Entitlements disorder are able to easily justify without regard;
- Violating other People.
- Violating their Property.
- Violating their Civil Rights.
- They discount their own Failures.
- Demonstrate no effort to improve their Lives.
- Choose to manipulate and Take from Others.
- Fail to recognize own Negligence.
- First shot at everything mentality.
- Due anything that is desired.
- Offended by others who want the best for themselves.
Desiring the best in life is not the problem, it’s sense of Entitlements that arises out of a “Superiority Complex” that makes thinking problematic when suggestive in willingness to violate others by discrimination, Exploitations, and Oppressions, Denying them the same Rights , opportunities, and Access to Valued Resources and of course is Primitive Simplistic Thinking.
The common denominator here is human tendency in failing to think well.
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Reference material utilized: M. Scott Peck, M.D.
From the book: The Road less Traveled and Beyond, Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety
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