That guy was definitely one you shoudl know more about it - both for political reasoning and personal advancement. For example he set out 13 virtues and tried to reach them by counting each time he did not act accourding to them - and found to his horror that he was a quite bad person ;)Maybe I will find that wonderful article on that again, but with this you may understadn how he worked. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/06/01/the-virtuous-life-wrap-up/http://www.knowledgehouse.info/Ben%20Franklin%27s%2013%20Virtues%20Chart.pdf
Quote from: LennStar on September 21, 2015, 08:36:49 AMThat guy was definitely one you shoudl know more about it - both for political reasoning and personal advancement. For example he set out 13 virtues and tried to reach them by counting each time he did not act accourding to them - and found to his horror that he was a quite bad person ;)Maybe I will find that wonderful article on that again, but with this you may understadn how he worked. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/06/01/the-virtuous-life-wrap-up/http://www.knowledgehouse.info/Ben%20Franklin%27s%2013%20Virtues%20Chart.pdfI think they really miss the boat on the sincerity one. If Ben Franklin had access to message boards he'd be the world's greatest troll. A big part of his business model was using pen-names to attack his opponents and spread gossip.Nothing against sincerity as a virtue, just trying to keep it real here. Ben Franklin was savvy enough to realize that it's often more powerful to be virtuous in appearance than in fact.
Quote from: Marus on September 23, 2015, 02:09:11 PMQuote from: LennStar on September 21, 2015, 08:36:49 AMThat guy was definitely one you shoudl know more about it - both for political reasoning and personal advancement. For example he set out 13 virtues and tried to reach them by counting each time he did not act accourding to them - and found to his horror that he was a quite bad person ;)Maybe I will find that wonderful article on that again, but with this you may understadn how he worked. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2008/06/01/the-virtuous-life-wrap-up/http://www.knowledgehouse.info/Ben%20Franklin%27s%2013%20Virtues%20Chart.pdfI think they really miss the boat on the sincerity one. If Ben Franklin had access to message boards he'd be the world's greatest troll. A big part of his business model was using pen-names to attack his opponents and spread gossip.Nothing against sincerity as a virtue, just trying to keep it real here. Ben Franklin was savvy enough to realize that it's often more powerful to be virtuous in appearance than in fact.I wonder if business back then was like now. Immediately I thought no way could I do that at work. There are sooo many times I practice Silence rather than Sincerity! Sometimes it's with other's personal things but far more often it's stuff I'm encouraged to do or whatever. Sometimes it's less silence than mild implication. Yes, I'll do that certification. Yes I'm planning to work here for years. No I'm not prepping up my resume to shop around. Not that work's all that bad compared to some, just that I don't think it's "normal" in our current culture to really be sincere in many workplaces.
Then you can sincerily use deception and bullshitting.Yeah, its bad how bad the world is. But its not going to be better if you try to be on top of the bad.