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Viktor Frankl on "Why the idealists are the real realists" (psychological styles) - C C - Jul 30, 2023
https://youtu.be/loay2imHq5E
VIDEO EXCERPTS: You know who has said this: If we take man as he is, we make him worse. But if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be.
[...] If we seem to be idealist and are overestimating, overrating man, and looking at him that high -- here above, you know what happens. We promote him to what he really can be.
So we have to be idealist in a way, because then we wind up at the true or the real realist [orientation].
Viktor Frankl on "Why the idealists are the real realists"
RE: Viktor Frankl on "Why the idealists are the real realists" (psychological styles) - Magical Realist - Aug 1, 2023
I always give strangers the benefit of the doubt, taking them to be friendly and basically good. Though there are times when this isn't true, the pretending it is true is a more practical and streamlined way of human interaction. Rudeness and drama just wastes valuable energy and time and consumes thought better spent on something else.