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The Reflective Life - Living Wisely With Our Limits (Hardcover)
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The Reflective Life - Living Wisely With Our Limits (Hardcover)
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How should you live? Should you devote yourself to perfecting a
single talent or try to live a balanced life? Should you lighten up
and have more fun, or buckle down and try to achieve greatness?
Should you try to be a better friend? Should you be self-critical
or self-accepting? And how should you decide among the
possibilities open to you? Should you consult experts, listen to
your parents, do lots of research? Make lists of pros and cons, or
go with your gut? These are not questions that can be answered in
general or in the abstract. Rather, these questions are addressed
to the first person point of view, to the perspective each of us
occupies when we reflect on how to live without knowing exactly
what we're aiming for. To answer them, The Reflective Life focuses
on the process of living one's life from the inside, rather than on
defining goals from the outside. Drawing on traditional
philosophical sources as well as literature and recent work in
social psychology, Tiberius argues that, to live well, we need to
develop reflective wisdom: to care about things that will sustain
us and give us good experiences, to have perspective on our
successes and failures, and to be moderately self-aware and
cautiously optimistic about human nature. Further, we need to know
when to think about our values, character, and choices, and when
not to. A crucial part of wisdom, Tiberius maintains, is being able
to shift perspectives: to be self-critical when we are prepared for
it, but not when it will undermine our success; to be realistic,
but not to the extent that we are immobilized by the harsh facts of
life; to examine life when reflection is appropriate, but not when
we should lose ourselves in experience.
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