A character development
“What are you doing?”
I don’t answer Dommik. All my focus is right here, on my hands. On the
gashes cut through each palm and the sharp shards of ice stuck to them.
And I beg.
On my knees in desperate prayer, I beg.
I don’t beg the gods, because what have powerful men ever done for me?
No, I beg the magic instead. The magic I shouldn’t have. I beg desperately
for it to do something, anything, to help me save the city I endangered.
Please…
The wind howls.
Snowfall starts to drizzle down from the sky.
And I beg and beseech and pray.
Dommik watches me. A kneeling queen and a silent assassin, the two of
us a seemingly unlikely pair. Except, we have more in common than most.
We’ve both brought on death. He’s just honest about it. He wields a blade
and spills others’ blood. I let someone spill my blood, and now the enemy
will wield their blades against my people.
What I’ve done is far, far worse.
Please…
My eyes are shut tight, my hands shaking, everything in me coiled with a
desperation that seems larger than life itself.
Because I regret.
I regret allowing my powerless life to mold me. I regret not standing up
to my father. I regret marrying Midas. I regret allowing him to keep a
woman in a cage. I regret looking down on the very people I was meant to
serve. I regret taking everything for granted.
I regret becoming this bitter, cold woman, and I want to let that cold out.
To make it do something good.
Please…
I keep praying to this power, keep begging this mercurial magic, and
The Greeks, then, stand as the uncontested original thinkers and scientists of Europe. They first sought knowledge for its own sake, and pursued knowledge in a scientific, free and unprejudiced spirit. Moreover, owing to the character of Greek religion, they were free from any priestly class that might have strong traditions and unreasoned doctrines of their own, tenaciously held and imparted only to a few, which might hamper the development of free science.
[O halde Yunanlılar, Avrupa'nın tartışmasız ilk düşünürleri ve bilim insanları olarak durmaktadır. Onlar ilkin bilgiyi kendisi için istemişler ve bilimsel, özgür ve önyargısız bir ruhla bilginin peşinden gitmişlerdir. Dahası, Yunan dininin karakteri sayesinde, özgür bilimin gelişimini engelleyebilecek güçlü geleneklere ve kendilerine ait, inatla tutulan ve sadece birkaç kişiye aktarılan mantıksız doktrinlere sahip olabilecek herhangi bir rahip sınıfından uzaktılar.]
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Ambitions
"Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity. Knowing this, tie a rope to a boulder. Pick up the great stone, heave it in front of you, and pull yourself towards it. Watch and observe while you move forward. Articulate your experience as clearly and carefully to yourself and others as you possibly can. In this maner, you will learn to proceed more effectively and efficiently towards your goal. And, while you are doing this, do not lie. Especially to yourself."
tense but secure
Relationship conflict i destructive in part because it stands in the way of rethinking. When a clash gets personal and emotional, we be- come self-righteous preachers of our own views, spiteful prosecutors of the other side, or single-minded politicians who dismiss opinions that don't come from our side. Task conflict can be constructive when it brings diversity of thought, preventing us from getting trapped in overconfi- dence cycles. It can help us stay humble, surface doubts, and make us curious about what we might be missing. That can lead us to think again, moving us closer to the truth without damaging our relationships.
Although productive disagreement is a critical life skill, it's one that many of us never fully develop. The problem starts early: parents disagree behind closed doors, fearing that conflict will make children anxious or somehow damage their character. Yet research shows that how often par- ents argue has no bearing on their children's academic, social, or emo- tional development. What matters is how respectfully parents argue, not how frequently. Kids whose parents clash constructively feel more emo- tionally safe in elementary school, and over the next few years they actually demonstrate more helpfulness and compassion toward their classmates.
Being able to have a good fight doesn't just make us more civil; it also develops our creative muscles. In a classic study, highly creative archi- tects were more likely than their technically competent but less original peers to come from homes with plenty of friction. They often grew up in households that werd "tense but secure
It is hardly necessary to stress the fact that the ability to love as an act of giving depends on the character development of the person. It presupposes the attainment of a predominantly productive orientation; in this orientation the person has overcome dependency, narcissistic omnipotence, the wish to exploit others, or to hoard, and has acquired faith in his own human powers, courage to rely on his powers in the attainment of his goals... certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsibility, respect and knowledge.
but domains are more than the sum of their individual technologies. they are coherent wholes, families of devices, methods, and practices, whose coming into being and development have a character that differs from that of individual technologies. they are not invented; they emerged, crystallizing around a set of phenomena or a novel enabling technology, and building organically from these."
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