Character improvement is a dangerous idea. If you improve your character because of strict discipline, adults will push you harder and think other children should be pushed too.
So you have to become lazier, crazier, and irrational in character because you are disciplined so that you can manipulate the adults not to do that. You can't become lazier, crazier, and irrational in behavior because that will be severely disciplined, but you should develop that in character.
Not improving your character is also painful. If you are forced to do your homework anyway, it may be easier to do it with a can-do attitude or even gratitude than with great vulnerability, resentment and anger, but if you want to manipulate adults into not improving your character through more coercion, you have to take the second path. That is also a difficult path, and it is difficult in the present (you are now, not in the future, with great vulnerability, resentment and anger).
However, more commonly, being "positively and optimisticly motivated" is more painful than being fragile and hateful. You don't have any schemes to manipulate adults, and I also hope that this will become a reason for adults to refuse to use coercion to improve character.
Let me give you an example that is both bad and good. Suppose a person is ill and needs surgery to treat the illness, but the surgery itself is painful. In this case, the value of the surgery is something that everyone "records in their ledger." However, suppose there are two types of surgery that are identical in terms of treating the illness itself, but one is more painful than the other. If the choice is made to intentionally opt for the more painful surgery to enhance the patient's character and temper their spirit, the value behind this decision may or may not be "recorded in the ledger," and opinions on this vary among different people. If you were to perform the more painful surgery regardless, and it resulted in the patient's character and spirit deteriorating rather than improving, or if the patient felt anger, hatred, and rebellion because they did not voluntarily choose the surgery, this could be interpreted as a signal not to perform the more painful surgery, or as a signal that the surgery should be more painful to better enhance their character and spirit. Opinions on this matter would also vary among different people.
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Character improvement is a dangerous idea. If you improve your character because of strict discipline, adults will push you harder and think other children should be pushed too.
So you have to become lazier, crazier, and irrational in character because you are disciplined so that you can manipulate the adults not to do that. You can't become lazier, crazier, and irrational in behavior because that will be severely disciplined, but you should develop that in character.
Not improving your character is also painful. If you are forced to do your homework anyway, it may be easier to do it with a can-do attitude or even gratitude than with great vulnerability, resentment and anger, but if you want to manipulate adults into not improving your character through more coercion, you have to take the second path. That is also a difficult path, and it is difficult in the present (you are now, not in the future, with great vulnerability, resentment and anger).
However, more commonly, being "positively and optimisticly motivated" is more painful than being fragile and hateful. You don't have any schemes to manipulate adults, and I also hope that this will become a reason for adults to refuse to use coercion to improve character.
Let me give you an example that is both bad and good. Suppose a person is ill and needs surgery to treat the illness, but the surgery itself is painful. In this case, the value of the surgery is something that everyone "records in their ledger." However, suppose there are two types of surgery that are identical in terms of treating the illness itself, but one is more painful than the other. If the choice is made to intentionally opt for the more painful surgery to enhance the patient's character and temper their spirit, the value behind this decision may or may not be "recorded in the ledger," and opinions on this vary among different people. If you were to perform the more painful surgery regardless, and it resulted in the patient's character and spirit deteriorating rather than improving, or if the patient felt anger, hatred, and rebellion because they did not voluntarily choose the surgery, this could be interpreted as a signal not to perform the more painful surgery, or as a signal that the surgery should be more painful to better enhance their character and spirit. Opinions on this matter would also vary among different people.
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