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Attitude Your Way of Viewing Life
Attitude Your Way of Viewing Life
Attitude Your Way of Viewing Life
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YOUR MENTAL ATTITUDE to life is one of the key elements of your personality makeup. It defines your way of viewing reality, the seven options being: Realism, Spiritualism, Idealism, Pragmatism, Cynicism, Skepticism and Stoicism.
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or perhaps aggressively. Your Attitude is how you interpret your life experiences your individual take on life in general how you make sense of reality.
A coherent story
Every Attitude is, in effect, a bias in how we interpret our life experiences. For example: Realism is biased towards paying attention to the solid facts and their consequences. Cynicism is biased against non-facts. In fact, there is no way to mentally construct reality without one bias or another. We can experience the essence of reality purely and directly in exceptional moments of spiritual insight (awakening, enlightenment). But everyday life is more chaotic and uncertain, a jumble of events and experiences, one after another. The Attitude is how we join together our experiences to form a coherent mental picture or story of life as we live it. By way of example, I have the Attitude of Idealism. I tend to look at life in terms of how perfect it could be. I look for ways in which life is good, or better than it seems, or could be made better than it is. My mental framework automatically reconstructs everyday life events so that they fit some perfect, ideal pattern (as I see it). So my sense of life is biased to a framing it in terms of some nice idea that makes perfect sense to me. My wife, in contrast, is very sensitive to ideas that don t make sense. She has the attitude of Skepticism. Her basic mental orientation is to ask, What s wrong with this picture? This works well as a combination or at least it does now that we understand our different takes on life. I come up with nice ideas and she puts them to the test. For example, let s say we re in a hospital: I can imagine the medical staff doing a great job, and look for signs to verify that. My wife, however, will point out all the things the staff are doing wrong.
2 Skepticism Investigation Suspicion Contradiction Denigration Dogmatism Navet Credulity 4 Pragmatism Practicality Coalescence 6 Spiritualism Verification
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As ever, the seven options represent three pairs of polar opposites (Action pair, Expression pair, Inspiration pair) plus one neutral option (Assimilation).
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to the test, or simply reject them outright. I ll believe it when I see it for myself. Positive = investigation (checking the validity of doubtful ideas) Negative = suspicion (doubting unfairly, without checking)
Pragmatism
Those who have the Assimilation Attitude don t really care about viewing things this way or that way. Pragmatists just take in whatever information is useful right now and then move on. That s all I need to know. Positive = practicality (finding what works in each new situation). Negative = dogmatism (assuming, without reason, that whatever worked in the past will work now).
Understand that none of these viewpoints is right or wrong. They are all limited and biased in their own ways, and they all have the potential to be used positively or negatively, but they are all valid and they all give life a consistent sense of meaning. Seen as working together, they provide a rich picture, a kind of tapestry view of life.
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Where can I find more information on these attitudes? It seems I would have liked examples, either reality or fiction based, to better understand these attitudes.
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barry
08 Jun 2012 at 7:36 am
Hi Rose Yes, I need to flesh those pages out a bit. Meanwhile, try here: http://www.michaelteachings.com/overleaves_index.html
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Maritim Kipngetich
10 Dec 2012 at 6:31 pm
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Dustin Campbell
04 Jun 2013 at 3:17 am
First I have to say this is the first I ve ever researched personality, spirituality or anything of this nature in any real depth, but this is great. There is a wealth of information here. You are a smart guy, and I commend you. Also this is very well thought out and put together. My question is I tend to look at the world as eyes from above. Almost like
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