{"id":1042,"date":"2012-02-13T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2012-02-13T22:09:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:09:24","slug":"change-vs-self-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2012\/change-vs-self-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Change v\/s Self-Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester at the University, i would be late almost everyday when i had classes early in the morning at 08:30. However, this semester i took a resolution to not come late anymore.<\/p>\n<p>However this positive resolution started to haunt my thoughts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If x = 2 ,then -x = -2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When i would do things badly, the results were kinda good. Now if i do it the correct way, the results might be the opposite<\/p>\n<p>I started to think resolutions should not be considered as an act to *change* yourself. It is to make the same &#8220;old you&#8221; better.<\/p>\n<p>We remove a negative value y,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>x &#8211; y = 5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone wanting to change himself is a coward IMO. He doesn&#8217;t has the guts to admit he has flaws. He prefers instead to throw his ownself away and install someone else&#8217;s mind which he considers better.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But, no one is Perfect!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The person above will copy the flaws of the role model too.\u00a0 What would he do next? Enter in an (infinite) loop to search for a new role model?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A wise man can learn, even from a fool, but a fool cannot learn, even from a wise man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To become a better person, it is important for one to remain himself, improve his own good qualities and eliminate his own bad qualities. Just copying someone might lead him to have a troubled personality. His life would be the most boring of all.<\/p>\n<p>Live your own life. God gave you life as a gift. Don&#8217;t waste it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last semester at the University, i would be late almost everyday when i had classes early in the morning at 08:30. However, this semester i took a resolution to not come late anymore. However this positive resolution started to haunt my thoughts. If x = 2 ,then -x = -2 When i would do things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2012\/change-vs-self-improvement\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change v\/s Self-Improvement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-self-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}