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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  It would be pretty tough to tell if someone is genuinely living on purpose based on a forum post. I may get an intuitive sense about the answer, but I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when they post here. It's much easier for me to sense how someone is doing when I meet them in person. |
and Bruce Achterberg
*Again not to hijack this thread.* (I wish the software could distinguish and hide digressions in conversation.)
Do either of you believe that personal development is the most intelligent purpose
for everyone?
I assume everyone here believes that. We're all devoted to personal development, and would love to see everyone take it up.
But while we share that goal, we differ in our ways of fulfilling it.
On the low end, we generally agree. Being a bum, isn't empowering toward that end. On the high end, we disagree. Some people become writers, speakers, artists, or politicians, to achieve that end.
We should be able to discard activities that don't contribute toward this end. And while we don't know what events would lead
an individual to adopt PD, why couldn't we be smart enough to narrow down the list to a few approaches?
If we had enough knowledge, I can't see why this would be an impossible system to develop.
Is this what you answered in the book?