It’s definitely true that “Newness” isn’t the best measuring stick, but if you’re looking for a semi-objective measuring stick to cut down the number of articles that get posted, you could do much worse.
Here’s an example of a good article on “be yourself” (http://postmasculine.com/just-be-yourself). It explains that “being yourself” mean developing a strong sense of identity and being consistent with it, rather than being someone who doesn’t grow and develop.
I don’t think it’s a good article or that it provides deep insight. It’s basically about pretending that a certain advice doesn’t exist because the author can’t see any reason why someone might give that advice. That’s because a single article is not enough to learn a new primitives. You can be a PD-blogger without having learned the corresponding lesson.
It includes the line: “She’s not saying you should accept the habits that have held you back.”
This suggest that the author doesn’t understand the value of accepting negative issues. Very often acceptance is necessary to let go of a behavior afterwards. Various personal development paradigms put a high value on acceptance.
Okay, maybe you don’t think the advice is useful. Under this system you probably won’t find lots of advice useful, but you’ll still be exposed to new ideas.
The point is not whether his advice is useful. The point is that he fails to understand and that understanding concepts that are foreign to your world view is hard. Really hard.
Understanding on the other hand needs dealing with a topic for longer amount of time. Deeper understanding is unlikely if you don’t deal with the same topic multiple times but always seek for something new.
In general don’t take what it means to say “be yourself” from someone who cringes when he hears the phrase and who wouldn’t use it himself.
It’s definitely true that “Newness” isn’t the best measuring stick, but if you’re looking for a semi-objective measuring stick to cut down the number of articles that get posted, you could do much worse.
Here’s an example of a good article on “be yourself” (http://postmasculine.com/just-be-yourself). It explains that “being yourself” mean developing a strong sense of identity and being consistent with it, rather than being someone who doesn’t grow and develop.
I don’t think it’s a good article or that it provides deep insight. It’s basically about pretending that a certain advice doesn’t exist because the author can’t see any reason why someone might give that advice. That’s because a single article is not enough to learn a new primitives. You can be a PD-blogger without having learned the corresponding lesson.
It includes the line: “She’s not saying you should accept the habits that have held you back.”
This suggest that the author doesn’t understand the value of accepting negative issues. Very often acceptance is necessary to let go of a behavior afterwards. Various personal development paradigms put a high value on acceptance.
Okay, maybe you don’t think the advice is useful. Under this system you probably won’t find lots of advice useful, but you’ll still be exposed to new ideas.
The point is not whether his advice is useful. The point is that he fails to understand and that understanding concepts that are foreign to your world view is hard. Really hard.
Understanding on the other hand needs dealing with a topic for longer amount of time. Deeper understanding is unlikely if you don’t deal with the same topic multiple times but always seek for something new.
In general don’t take what it means to say “be yourself” from someone who cringes when he hears the phrase and who wouldn’t use it himself.