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How to Dissolve Challenges
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Either our fellow people identify self-praise, boasting, defaming others etc. for what they really are: - a major flaw of character, and react with disregard, mockery and insincere applause. Or we attract only the simple-minded, whose adoration hardly makes us progress; what good does it to see a million ants bow down to us?
Direct strife for status always indicates a limited mind. The media-stars and vainglory politicians of our times demonstrate this blatantly.
Sure, we can try direct ways to recognition. But this makes us experience how hollow this forced status feels, - how insincere others react to our efforts, - how they laugh at us behind our back, or loath us with all their heart while showing smiling faces.
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TRUE Recognition
True recognition, true love and true affection are never gained by any specific action. True recognition is always and only given for free.
Truly high status is given when we
genuinely help others
· sincerely recognize their merits
• enable them to unfold their inborn abilities etc.
while not expecting an immediate response, gratitude or use it for self-praise etc. True recognition comes automatically and with the same inevitability as the flaws of forced status are experienced. But it might not come when or how we expect it.
