Does constantly wanting more always have to constitute greed? Can it not be about excellence to be better? Can it not be about kindness to allow others to benefit more, or more others to benefit, unlike greed that benefits the self?
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Only Plans C to Z are Optional
How often do you have a back-up plan to things you do, whether all things or just things with some consequence? That back-up plan doesn’t have to be extensive, just that you know what you’ll do if what you planned didn’t turn out to be feasible or get you what you wanted. Now, how often do you have more than one back-up plan?
Tests are Reality’s Lucky Charms
What do you think of tests? From academic or otherwise formal tests, to life, metaphorical, and informal tests. You probably don’t have one answer for them all, like I don’t, but do you generally view them favourably or not?
A Good Mistake is Really Hard to Make
Is there such a thing as a good mistake in your world? What does it mean, if yes? Or why not, if no?
No Mistake is Fully One if You Learned Something Good from It
How much of a mistake do you consider a mistake you made to be if you learned something from it? Are you the type who retells yourself the story to reduce the value of the mistake with a silver lining, even if you don’t reduce it quantitatively like making it half a mistake? Or are you the type who stick with a mistake is a mistake? Or perhaps you go the other way to consider no mistake to be one if you learned something from it like I once did? I changed from that view because I found I was letting myself off the hook too easily for my liking regarding accountability.
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