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I tend to try to live by The Four Agreements: Be Impeccable With Your Words Don't Take Anything Personally Don't Make Assumptions Always Do Your Best This
by gregd 13y ago
I tend to try to live by The Four Agreements:
Be Impeccable With Your Words
Don't Take Anything Personally
Don't Make Assumptions
Always Do Your Best
This is from an excellent book called, "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom" by Don Ruiz.
We could all do with a lot more of number two, don't take anything personally.
- gdulli 13y ago"We could all do with a lot more of number two, don't take anything personally." This is really a Postel's Law situation. Yes, your life will be improved if you can receive bad behavior and not take it personally. But it would be a shitty world to live in if this burden was only on recipients. The only robust way to maintain a worthwhile society is to expect, in the general case, that adults will have control of their impulses. Enabling this kind of behavior from celebrities is a loophole we might try harder to close, but fortunately, most of us don't have to deal with celebrities. I can't control what kinds of behavior that others will tolerate, and I won't lose sleep over the existence of name-calling among adults in the world, but there's no way I'd keep a job where I was treated that way, let alone continue to volunteer my time in that situation.
- gregd 13y agoWell I agree with you based on the 2nd agreement only. But really what I should have said was we could see a LOT more use of the FOUR agreements out of everyone. Being impeccable with your word takes the "burden" off of the recipient, which of course is the first agreement.
- gdulli 13y agoAh. I might have misread the emphasis on that one point.