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038 Considering Wisdom
A weekly newsletter from BobBarnardnm.com
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Please share this with your friends so we can encourage others to consider wisdom.
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Thoughts on the intersection of Society/Culture, Productivity/You, and Wisdom/Knowledge.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Benjamin Franklin
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My WEEK
It has been a lazy week for me. I have been procrastinating about starting a course on copywriting. Maybe next week. Instead, I watched tv shows—what a waste. But on Friday, I began to get moving again. I published a financial article on medium and started on tomorrow's newsletter. I got to talk to two of my children and a friend in Oregon, which were the week's highlights.
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Considering Wisdom.
It is easy to blame "them." It is hard to confront "me." The easy path is the road to ruin. The hard path is the way of growth. @TheStoicEmperor
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The blame games! I didn't do it. They did.
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We do this more often than we would like to admit. It's the teacher's fault I didn't pass. She didn't teach it right. But, of course, the reality is I was the problem. I didn't study enough. I didn't learn it. Or, I don't have enough energy, or I'm too fat. Ring any new year's resolution bells. But the reality is that it isn't anyone else's fault. I didn't make the efforts I needed to make.
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I think we play the blame game to protect our self-image rather than work to improve it. For example, my golf scores this week were higher than I wanted but did I practice any before playing? No, it was the temperature, or in this case, it was because I didn't bring my correct glasses. It is our nature to find excuses and ways to blame something or someone else for our shortcomings. We don't even do it consciously sometimes. It is just in the back of our minds, lingering. Living in a world of excuses and blame is the easy road to ruin, as stated in the quote above.
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The hard and best path is to recognize that excuses and blame are your way of being lazy and unwilling to take yourself by the scruff of your neck and shake some reality into your life.
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To grow in understanding who we are, we must realistically look at what we do and say and then accept our responsibility for our actions. For example, we must take offense and act rather than blame others for bullying as we walk by.
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It is not enough to say we have a hunger problem in our city; we must do whatever we can to help alleviate this problem. It can be as simple as volunteering to work at a soup kitchen one day a month. It can be as simple as donating three cans of food during a food drive. But, as the stoic says, we must take the hard path to growth.
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Quit blaming others and finding excuses, take responsibility, and grow into a better, more humane person.
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