Social Savvy
© 2005 GypsyJaguar
Social and mental awareness through learning, reading, figuring, debating, communicating.
"Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours."
- Andy Warhol
Our brain is a machine. It needs regular stimulation to stay healthy. While we're children we have regular stimulation through school every day. But when we get older and out of school, we need to find our own stimulation. This can be found through adult college courses, home research, number and word puzzles, reading, and communication with others through social contact.
It is important to challenge our brains from time to time by communicating with people who have different ideas and beliefs. This challenges our brains by forcing us to think quickly and respond calmly to ideas that may not match our own. It is just as important to also have people around us that DO think on the same lines as we do. This is part of the balance of our mental selves. We must also widen our horizons by seeking out individuals that are more evolved than ourselves. Listen quietly to everyone who speaks, wise and ignorant. Every person we come in contact with can teach us many things about human experiences and basic human nature.
Remember that the books we read are only written by humans like ourselves. There are no true experts on any one subject. We continually learn throughout our lives, and what may be true in one context may not be in another...or for another individual. Take in the knowledge, but use your own smarts and logic to sort through and categorize the information you have read. You will know what rings true for yourself and what doesn't. What may be a solid truth for you at one time in your life may prove to be untrue in the future. Part of attaining wisdom, is to realize that we are always learning, and truths are always changing. Be flexible to your truths, and you will gain great wisdom.
"All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings; living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when we fail flagrantly we are mad, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep, when we give up the attempt altogether we die. In quiet, uneventful lives the changes internal and external are so small that there is little or no strain in the process of fusion and accommodation; in other lives there is great strain, but there is also great fusing and accommodating power; in others great strain with little accommodating power. A life will be successful or not, according as the power of accommodation is equal to or unequal to the strain of fusing and adjusting internal and external changes."
- Samuel Butler in "The Way of All Flesh"
Click the links below to learn more:
Social Savvy - The People Around Us and What They Can Teach Us - Body Language - The Tell-Tale Walk - The Company We Keep - A Bit of Advice - A Matter of Perspective - Being A Good Friend - How To Truly Help Others - Courtesy and Respect - Nice Is Not Always Kind - End the Drama Once and For All - Toxic Relationships
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