Prompting 7 _ Constant

Egoism is a treacherous and debilitating force.
An egoist is like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
An egoist is a person of low taste, more interested in oneself than any other.
An egoist believes that even if everything they say is wrong,
Is prejudiced, spiteful, malevolent, even if they are liars and poisoners,
It is nevertheless the truth and it will have to be swallowed.
Here are SEVEN ways on how to ULTIMATELY UPGRADE your awareness on this matter!
Egocentric Bias is having a higher opinion of oneself than reality.
Distinguished Developers: Michael Ross and Fiore Sicoly first identified this cognitive bias,
in their 1979 paper, “Egocentric biases in availability and attribution”.

UNDERLYING the egocentric bias is the tendency to rely solely, or too heavily on one’s own perspective.
PLACING more weight, on one’s own emotions, thoughts, or attributes and neglecting others’ is the key.
GRANTED, people have high abilities, strong traits, make high contributions, or have intense emotions.
RETROACTIVELLY, they are more likely to rate themselves as ABOVE AVERAGE in all of these domains.
APPARENTLY judging oneself to be low in all of these domains, one considers oneself BELOW AVERAGE.
DECEPTIVELY, this tendency to focus on one’s own ABSOLUTE standing, leads to wrong PERCEPTIONS.
EXPERIENCES and beliefs are appreciated when they match one’s own, causing an egocentric outlook.
Timely Therapy: - When making a personal-social comparison you should be thinking about others as well.

NEVER ENTERTAIN THE IDEA of being a defeated grumbler. It is not an edifying sight. If you want the world to know that you are not a weakling, go ahead. But be conscious of where your triumphant spirit ends and where other people’s begins. Being a bloated balloon is bad, but being a floating bubble is the worst. The former may endure a bit of discomfort, but burst at the slighted pinch, while the former will simply burst at the slightest touch. It was American historian and philosopher Will Durant (1885 - 1981) in Pleasures of Philososphy (1959) who asserted:

The period of puberty is our marvelous age. It is the Age of Reason, and yet the epoch of emotion; new riches of mind and heart scatter on all sides a shower of ideas and a wealth of love. Never does the world seem so strange and yet so beautiful, so inaccessible and yet so conquerable, as in these moulting years; every later age looks back to them with longing. It is the springtime of every power, the seed-time of every growth; in it all noble passions find their nourishment. It is LIFE’s Renaissance....Youth is the transition from play to work, from dependence on the family to dependence on one’s self. It is a little anarchic and egoistic, because in the family its every whim or want was favoured by unstinting parental love. Passing into the world, youth...utters its wide barbaric yawp, and advances to conquer and remould the world

SEVEN therapeautic tonics to loftily LOCATE your LIFE’s BASIC BEARING:

BONDS we form with others, determines our survival and happiness. From the moment we are born, we humans feel a never-ending need for attention. We are social animals to the core.
ESSENTIALLY, if people do not pay attention to us, we cannot connect to them on any level. Some of this is purely physical — we must have people looking at us to feel alive.
APPARENTLY, through the quality of attention we receive from others, we feel recognized and appreciated for who we are. Our sense of self-worth depends on this.
REASONABLY, because this is so important to the human animal, people will do almost anything to get attention, including committing a crime or attempting suicide.
IF we revel on other people focusing on us, we also naturally possess the most remarkable tool for connecting to other people and thus attaining social power — empathy.
NOW, when cultivated and properly used, it allows us to see into the moods and minds of others, giving us the power to anticipate people’s actions and gently lower their resistance.
GIVEN that this instrument is blunted by our habitual self-absorption, our mission in LIFE is to come to terms with this self-love and turn our sensitivity outward, toward others.

At this particular developmental stage of ‘YOUTH’, the ability to think about your own thoughts, leads to the tendency to become so obsessed with yourself. This tends to limit you and make you feel like you obsess everyone. This is what psychologists call ‘Youth Egocentrism’. Egocentrism is the difficulty in understanding another’s point of view and the belief that other people experience environment identical to oneself. A major characteristic of egocentric thinking is the belief that the world revolves around oneself. Egocentrism emerges because, while you can now cognise the thoughts of others, you fail to differentiate between the objects towards which the thoughts of others are directed and those, which are the focus of your own concern. Accordingly, you assume others as obsessed with your behaviour and appearances as you are.

Here is BEYONDISM FORMIDABLE FORMULA for SELF-ACTUALIZATION
(The ‘head’ and ‘tail’ of Activating your SELFHOOD) in regard to:
Empasthising with other people’s situations, ideas and feelings.

FIND the competencies that flow from your self-awareness and self-regulation, motivation and empathy.
Core Choice #7: With self-leadership, you will prove more resilient no matter what the future brings.
Sure Score #7: You are an active participant who make your own LIFE’s interpretations and meaning.
OCCUPATION with one’s affairs make the self dear, so if you desire your own advantage respect others.
Solid Stance #7: You will never meet with anything that was dearer to anyone than your own self.
Catalysing Consideration #7: Self-love entails the love of others; not being driven by egoistic desires.
READ and understand others clearly, or even have the sympathy for each other’s lack of understanding.
Mighty Mission #7: You must be assimilating by learning how to influence your environment.
Vivid Vision #7: You must be accommodating by recognising that you always have a choice.
MOTIVATE yourself to engage in experiments that lead to fresh emotional experiencing and new insights.
Gaining Ground #7: Engage yourself in the discovery process of having a new view of an old situation.
Capturing Clouds #7: Interact with nature and with other people without losing your core individuality.
UNLEASH the acceptance of responsibility for what you do; also accept the consequences of your actions.
Lofty Leap #7: Develop the ability to ask for and get help from others and to give to others.
Merry Momentum #7: Strive to move from outside support toward increasing internal support.
LIVE by purifying ill-will with its opposite, which will act on it like a washing jewel on muddied water.
Holy Hearken #7: You need a double dose of grace to keep yourself sensitive to people’s issues.
Divine Distinction #7: Friendliness and compassionateness are the antidotes to desire to hurt.
ACQUIRE values and develop skills that allows you to satisfy your needs without violating others rights.
Prudent Planting #7: Gradually assume ownership of your personal experience.
Hoped Harvest #7: Become more aware of all of your senses as well as others.

Therapeautic Takeaway #7
Cardinal Concept #7: As substantially scribed FOR YOU. ..............
Move BEYOND an inflated or exaggerated sense of self-admiration as well as self-centeredness.
Critical Canon #7: As candidly cracked BY YOU. ..............
To BECOME one who shuns overly focus on my sense of self-worth and fascination with myself.
Renaissance Rehearsal #7: As purposively partook BY YOU. ..............
REFUSE ignorance of others’ feelings, by sharpening the blade of EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

#7. In as much as I desire to creativelly mitigate my EGOCENTRISM,
How will I sharpen the blade of my EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?

Be in a position to consider all possibilities in a positive and open manner.
A narrow mind is generally an indication of a lower Emotional Intelligence (EQ).
Always seek to understand and reflect upon the emotions and ideas of others.
By considering new possibilities your mind will be able to continually expand.
It becomes easier to deal with conflicts in a calm and self-assured manner.
You will find yourself socially aware and new possibilities will be open to you.
In all arguments, it is often in the shades of gray that answers can be found.

#7. I, ___________________________, seeking to combat my EGOCENTRICISM, do DECISIVELY DECLARE that, if I become a selfish, self-centered person, I will generally lack empathy, and if I lack empathy, I will generally direct a lot more interest to myself, seeing LIFE through the eyes of my own needs and wants only. To improve empathy, I will put myself in the shoes of others. I will for instance, select someone who is experiencing hardship and think about how I would feel if I were put in their situation. I will actively imagine how it must be to go through the experiences they are having and what might alleviate some of their hardship in terms of support and care. When seeing someone going through something emotionally I will ask myself, “How would I react in the same situation?” “Do these people deserve to suffer such hardships?” “Should I feel sorry for this person?” “Are they being treated fairly?” and “Would I like to be treated that way?”

In this reference, as a BLESSED BEYONDIST, I hereby, make an ABSOLUTE AFFIRMATION that, I will ask myself questions like, “Why do I act like that?” “Why do I have certain beliefs?” “Why do I find it so confronting to have my beliefs challenged?” I will recognise my strengths and weaknesses and build upon the strengths while working out how to either supplement or work around my limitations. I will develop morals and evaluate them. This is best done through broad reading, learning and listening to a wide group of people, including those who really challenge my own view of the world. I will not simply adopt what my parents, teachers, workmates or anyone else believes; my morals must be carefully constructed from my broad learning and openness to the world. I will allow space for personal growth. As an intellectually curious person I will always be interested in self-improvement through learning, discovering and reinventing as needed throughout LIFE. Nothing is static and as a person who learns to go with the ebb and flow, I will lead a much more fulfilled LIFE than the one who resists change.

PROPOSE: - I will benefit in many ways from having a high level of intellectual ability (IQ), even at the expense of emotional intelligence (EQ).
OPPOSE: - Emotional intelligence, is the ability to identify, evaluate and control my emotions and to better understand and manage the emotions (or motivations) of others. I realise that, being intellectually capable is important in LIFE, but being emotionally intelligent can be considered even more so, as there are many benefits associated with high emotional intelligence.
DISPOSE: - Emotional Intelligence, is the ability to recognise my emotions for what they are and to understand their origins. It is also about knowing my strengths and limitations and self-esteem. It is the ability to delay gratification, balance my needs with those of others, take initiative and to pull back on impulsivity. It is also about being able to cope with change and to stay committed. It is about being attuned to other people’s emotions and concerns, as well as being able to notice and adapt to social cues. It is also about being able to see the power dynamics at play within any group or organisational context. It is about the ability to get along well with others, manage conflict, inspire and influence people and to communicate clearly.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens. Often I look so long at the closed door that I do not see the one which has been opened for me. I will abhor the tendency to be preoccupied with my needs at the expense of others. I will certainly, desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for my own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. I will throw off the hangover of self-pity and start doing something for myself by discovering myself through creativity. I will let my integrity itself be my own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of my own judgement of myself than all external precepts.

“Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.” — American rapper Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, alias Kid Cudi (b. 1984).--->

“Living life is a choice. Making a difference in someone else’s isn’t.” — American rapper Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, alias Kid Cudi (b. 1984).--->

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