No music for today, but here are two articles I read:
The Health Benefits of Narrative - readable and to the point.
The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness By David Rendall
- Quote: "My experience (...) indicates that efforts to fix weaknesses are ineffective."
In other words he is saying, people can't change by conscious effort. It's not the main point of the article but it's a big question, a main theme in my mind. Can people change? How? Gradually vs. "making a switch"?
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Gittit,
Can people change? That is a great question. I believe that the answer is yes. We can change both gradually and abruptly.
However, I do believe that it is important to decide what to change. I think that we are better off if we try to become more of who we are, if we try to improve on our existing strengths.
Additionally, I do believe that there are some things that we can't change about ourselves. For example, I am very tall and that isn't going to change. Although that is a physical example, I think the same holds true for some aspects of our personality.
The manifesto is designed to show people that some weaknesses can't be eliminated AND that they don't need to be eliminated. Our weaknesses are clues to our strengths.
I believe that fulfillment comes when we choose to change in positive ways by developing our inherent strengths, instead of trying to fix unavoidable weaknesses.
David Rendall
www.daverendall.typepad.com
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