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Stap 1: recognize the Blase - stap 2: Beware the inflaming factors - stap 3: Strageties Toward Bringing out the Rational Self

4 important questions on Stap 1: recognize the Blase - stap 2: Beware the inflaming factors - stap 3: Strageties Toward Bringing out the Rational Self

On what does the emotional self thrives on?

Ignorance

What is the first step toward the rational

The first step is always inward. You want to catch that Emotional Self in action. For this purpose, you must reflect on how you operate under stress.

When we want to master rationallity which step can we make towared it?

Look how you operate under stress. What particular weaknesses come out in such moments? ( is it the desire to bully or control)
look at your decisions ( especially those that have been ineffective)
see the pattern underlying insecurity that impels
Examine your strength what makes you different from other people.

What did Friedrich Nietzsche say?

“Trust your feelings!”—But feelings are nothing final or original; behind feelings there stand judgments and evaluations which we inherit in the form of . . . inclinations, aversions. . . . The inspiration born of a feeling is the grandchild of a judgment—and often of a false judgment!—and in any event not a child of your own! To trust one’s feelings—means to give more obedience to one’s grandfather and grandmother and their grandparents than to the gods which are in us: our reason and our experience.

The question on the page originate from the summary of the following study material:

The Concise Laws of Human Nature | 9781782834939 | Robert Greene

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