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The Four Questions: An Inquiry into Personal Responsibility “You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward” –Miguel Ruiz In his book The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz sets down a template for achieving happiness, ??????, and love within one’s lifetime. He was highly influenced by the teachings of Carlos Castaneda. In honor of them both (Don Ruiz’s wisdom and Castaneda’s ruthlessness) I have come up with four hard-hitting questions that don’t even need to be answered to be effective. The answers might seem obvious, but they’re still challenging. Just thinking about them and debating them has the potential to teach us a considerable amount about ourselves and about our tolerance of others. Is it better to be an unsatisfied free person or a satisfied slave? “I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” –Thomas Jefferson The menace of the past was that men became slaves; the menace of the present is that men become puppets. But there’s a fine line between slavery and puppetry. Freedom is something you do, not something you are. It is not a given. It takes effort, ??????, and determination; usually in the face of those who would make you their slaves, or puppets. One way to guard against slavery is knowledge. Like Frederick Douglas said, “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” But have no illusions, freedom is scary. It takes courage to maintain it. Sometimes it even takes going against the status quo. Like Thoreau wrote, “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” But it is our own responsibility, nobody else’s, to maintain our own freedom and to keep those “in power” accountable. Otherwise absolute power has free-reign to rule absolutely. Like John Adams said, “There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” Answering this important question, and then being proactive with what the answer means, will help us to guard against both forms of slavery. Would you rather be apathetically indifferent or proactively responsible? “To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.” -Irving Wallace Being clear about this question is a matter of understanding the tug-of-war between Courage & Comfort, and that the rope is Fear. Being proactive and responsible requires being courageous about being uncomfortable. “Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip are what people want, not action…” writes Soren Kierkegaard. “The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented –and then do nothing.” This is what becomes of apathy and indifference: laziness, doing nothing. Lest we too become lazy, it behooves us to be proactive and responsible. Like the fourth agreement says, “Do your best.” Which is easier said than done, ???????. ?????, our comfort zones are preciously small things. But like Tim Watts hilariously put it, “Apathy and ignorance are as helpful to you as trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube with a sledgehammer.” Don’t try to solve a Rubik’s Cube with a sledgehammer. Life is too short not to transform apathy into empathy and indifference into concern. Like Einstein warned, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Do you prefer the bliss of ignorance or the pain of knowledge? “The source of Man’s unhappiness is ignorance… The way he clings to blind opinions, imbibed in his infancy, dooms him to continual error.” – Baron d’Holbach Wisdom begins first with not ignoring our own ignorance, and second with being proactive about curing the ignorance. We’re always going to be ignorant about something or other. But all ignorance can be remedied by asking the right questions and consistently fine-tuning the answers in a healthy way. But the single most difficult thing a human being can do is admit when they are ignorant, even though we all know we are. So it takes diligence and immense circumspection. Like Kathryn Schulz wrote in On Being Wrong, “Ignorance isn’t necessarily a vacuum waiting to be filled; just as often, it is a wall, actively maintained.” ????????, we need the fortitude it takes to knock down those walls, keeping them erect just traps in parochial nonsense and stagnant traditions. But before we can tear them down we need to be aware of them. Conscientious ignorance opens the mind. Like Naseem Nicholas Taleb wrote, “Conscious ignorance, if you can practice it, expands your world; it can make things infinite.” If nothing else ignorance is dangerous. We become less dangerous the more we know what we’re dealing with. Whether we’re dealing with kittens or tigers, knowledge could be the difference between accidentally killing a kitten or stupidly getting killed by a tiger. Like the great Martin Luther King once said, “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Would you rather be slapped with the truth or kissed with a lie? “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” –Stephen Binko We are kissed with lies every day, usually from corporate advertisements and corrupt politicians. ????, like Rob Breszny says, “Hate hatred but don’t hate the haters.” It’s not worth bringing yourself down to their level. Like the second agreement asserts, “Don’t take anything personal.” They have an agenda that they’ve been brainwashed into believing is necessary. If they want to kiss us with lies, then we have to slap the people who believe those lies with the truth. Like the first agreement asserts, “Be impeccable with your word.” It won’t be easy. Not by a long shot. And it will hurt the people who bought those lies hook, line, and sinker. But the fate of the world could very well depend upon it. In a world where the ability to lie and manipulate others is held up as the highest good, we have to be even more ruthless with the truth than usual. Just as we have to be even more cognizant of making assumptions (the third agreement). This often means going against the status quo. But even if just one person rebels against an unhealthy untruthful order, we the people are more likely to be free to exist in a healthy truthful way. Like Albert Camus wrote, “I rebel; therefore we exist.” Image Source: These definitely are marvelous quotes and good advice keep it up
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Četiri pitanja: Upit u osobne odgovornosti "Možete imati mnoge velike ideje u glavi, ali ono što čini razliku je akcija. Bez akcije na ideji, neće biti manifestacija, nema rezultata, i nema nagrada "-Miguel Ruiz In his book Četiri Sporazumi, Don Miguel Ruiz zalazi predložak za postizanje sreće, mir, i ljubav unutar vlastitog života. On je bio jako pod utjecajem učenja Carlos Castaneda. U čast obojici (Don Ruiz mudrost i Castanedina nemilosrdnost) Ja sam se s četiri hard-udaranje pitanja koja ni ne treba odgovoriti kako bi bila učinkovita. Odgovore može izgledati očito, , ali oni i dalje osporavaju. Samo razmišljam o njima i da ih raspravljaju ima potencijal da nas nauči znatan iznos o sebi io našoj toleranciju drugih. Je li bolje biti nezadovoljan slobodna osoba ili zadovoljan rob? "Radije opasnu slobodu tijekom mirnog ropstva."-Thomas Jefferson Opasnost prošlosti bio da muškarci postali robovi; opasnost sadašnjosti je da su muškarci postali lutke. No, tu je tanka linija između ropstva i lutkarstva. Sloboda je nešto učiniti, nije nešto što će. Nije dao. Potrebno je truda, hrabrost, i odlučnost; obično u lice onima koji bi vam svoje robove, ili lutke. Jedan od načina kako bi zaštitio protiv ropstva je znanje. Kao Frederick Douglas rekao, "Znanje čovjeka čini nesposobnim da bude rob." Ali imati nikakvih iluzija, Sloboda je zastrašujuće. Potrebno je hrabrosti da ga zadrži. Ponekad čak je potrebno ići protiv statusa quo. Kao Thoreau pisao, "Neposluh je istina temelj slobode. Poslušni moraju biti robovi. "Ali, to je naša vlastita odgovornost, nitko drugi, održavati vlastitu slobodu i držati one "na vlasti" odgovornom. Inače apsolutna moć ima slobodnog vladavine na vlast apsolutno. Kao John Adams rekao, "Postoje dva načina za osvajanje i porobljavanje naciju. Jedan je od mača. Drugi je po duga. "Odgovor na ovo važno pitanje, i onda se proaktivno sa što je odgovor sredstva, će nam pomoći kako bi zaštitio protiv oba oblika ropstva. Biste li radije biti apatično ravnodušni ili proaktivno odgovoran? "Da budem nečiji sebe, i bez straha hoće li u pravu ili u krivu, je više divljenja nego jednostavno kukavičluka od prepuštanja sukladnosti. "-Irving Wallace Biti jasno o ovom pitanju je pitanje razumijevanja rat tug-of-između hrabrost & Utjeha, i da uže je strah. Biti proaktivan i odgovoran je potrebno biti hrabar o tome neugodno. "Naklapanje, gluposti, i tračevi su ono što ljudi žele, Ne akcije ... ", piše Soren Kierkegaard. "Tajna života je da slobodno ćaskanje o svemu se želi napraviti i kako se uvijek spriječenosti-a onda ne činiti ništa." To je ono što postaje apatije i ravnodušnosti: lijenost, ne radi ništa. Da ne bismo previše postali lijeni, to nam dolikuje da se proaktivno i odgovorno. Kao četvrti ugovor, kaže, "Učinite svoje najbolje." Koji je lakše reći nego učiniti, siguran. Mislim, naši comfort zone su preciously sitnice. No, kao što je Tim Watts urnebesno ga stavili, "Ravnodušnost i neznanje su korisne za vas kao pokušava riješiti Rubikova kocka s maljem." Nemojte pokušati riješiti Rubikova kocka s maljem. Život je prekratak da ne preobrazi u apatiju empatije i ravnodušnosti u zabrinutost. Kao Einstein upozorio, "Svijet neće uništiti oni koji čine zlo, ali oni koji ih gledaju bez radiš ništa. Da li radije blaženstvo neznanja ili bol znanja? "Izvor čovjekove nesreće je neznanje… Način na koji on drži slijepim mišljenje, usvojio je u svom djetinjstvu, dooms mu trajne greške "-. Baron d'Holbach Mudrost počinje prvi s ne ignoriranje vlastitog neznanja, a drugi se s proaktivno o liječenju neznanje. Mi smo uvijek ćeš biti u neznanju o nečemu ili druge. No, sve neznanje mogu otkloniti postavljanje pravih pitanja i dosljedno fino ugađanje odgovore na zdrav način. No, jedan najteže ljudsko biće može učiniti je priznati kada su u neznanju, iako svi znamo da smo. Tako to traje marljivost i ogromnu oprez. Kao Kathryn Schulz je napisao u Na Biti Wrong, "Neznanje nije nužno vakuum čeka da se napuni; baš kao što se često, da je zid, aktivno održava. Kako sada stvari stoje, trebamo hrabrost je potrebno srušiti te zidove, držeći ih uspravno samo zamke u župnom gluposti i stagnacije tradicije. No, prije nego što ih možemo srušiti moramo biti svjesni njih. Savjesno neznanje otvara um. Kao Naseem Nicholas Taleb pisao, "Svjesno neznanje, ako ga može prakticirati, proširuje svoj svijet; to može napraviti stvari beskonačan. Ako ništa drugo neznanje je opasan. Postajemo manje opasan više znamo s čime imamo posla s. Bilo da se bave mačiće ili tigrova, znanje može biti razlika između slučajno ubijanja mačića ili glupo ginuli tigar. Poput velikog Martina Luthera Kinga jednom rekao, “Ništa na svijetu je opasnije od neznanja i iskrene savjesti gluposti.” Biste li radije biti ošamario s istinom ili poljubio s laži? "Najmoćnije oružje u rukama tlačitelja je um potlačenih."-Stephen Binko Mi se ljubila s lažima svaki dan, obično iz korporativnih reklama i korumpiranih političara. Ali, kao što je Rob Breszny kaže, "Mržnja mržnju, ali ne mrzim mrzitelji." To nije vrijedno dovođenja sebe do njihove razine. Kao drugi sporazum, tvrdi, "Nemojte uzimati ništa osobno." Oni imaju plan da ste isprali mozak uvjerenjima potrebno. Ako žele da nas poljubi lažima, onda moramo šamar ljude koji vjeruju te laži s istinom. Kao prvi sporazum tvrdi, "Budite besprijekornom riječ." To neće biti lako. Nije ni izdaleka. I to volja povrijediti ljude koji su kupili te laži kuka, linija, i visak. No, sudbina svijeta mogao vrlo dobro ovise o tome. U svijetu u kojem sposobnost da laže i manipulira drugima se održava kao najviše dobro, moramo biti još nemilosrdniji s istinom nego inače. Baš kao što moramo biti još više svjesni stvaranje pretpostavki (Treći ugovor). To često znači ići protiv statusa quo. No, čak i ako je samo jedna osoba, pobunio protiv nezdrave neistinito bi, smo ljudi su više vjerojatno da će biti slobodni da postoji u zdravom istinski način. Kao i Albert Camus pisao, "Ja buntovnik; Stoga mi postojimo. Izvor slike: Komentari These definitely are marvelous quotes and good advice keep it up This is great! Hvala!