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High schools and colleges teach us to: be competitive (you make a personal decision to prove yourself when you get a lower rank or mark than that other guy or girl), do boring stuff (studying and practicing for exams), help others (teaching
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“Islam has strong social
aspects based around the concept of ummah – the community of believers –
and expressions of individualism or nonconformity tend to be frowned
upon. Members are expected to pull together and behave (at least in public)
in ways that uphold its Islamic ethos. Thus, when someone breaks away
from established norms – especially if they do so publicly – they are liable
to be seen as damaging communal solidarity”
― Arabs Without God: Atheism and freedom of belief in the Middle East
aspects based around the concept of ummah – the community of believers –
and expressions of individualism or nonconformity tend to be frowned
upon. Members are expected to pull together and behave (at least in public)
in ways that uphold its Islamic ethos. Thus, when someone breaks away
from established norms – especially if they do so publicly – they are liable
to be seen as damaging communal solidarity”
― Arabs Without God: Atheism and freedom of belief in the Middle East
“Winning is not determined in practice by talent or work ethic... In fact, only half the successful executives I've worked with are competent when measured in conventional terms. The other half get there a different way.”
― Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School
― Stealing the Corner Office: The Winning Career Strategies They'll Never Teach You in Business School
“(About conscience - sense of right / wrong)
No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.”
― Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice
No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.”
― Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice
“Where the spiritual self steeps itself in
its unconscious depths, there occur the phenomena of
conscience, love, and art. Where it happens the other way
around... we have to
deal with a neurosis or a psychosis, depending on whether the case is psychogenic or somatogenic.”
― Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice
its unconscious depths, there occur the phenomena of
conscience, love, and art. Where it happens the other way
around... we have to
deal with a neurosis or a psychosis, depending on whether the case is psychogenic or somatogenic.”
― Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice
“And just as the animal is at times misled by the vital instincts, so may man go astray... whereas the ethical instinct alone enables him to discover the unique requirement of a unique situation”
― Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice
― Man's Search for Meaning / Ultimate Meaning / The Choice
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