Convincing people who are not interested in change is a waste of time.

[CreamCat]

I once visited a community full of hedonism, consumerism, and petty criticisms. They knew they were boasting about their recent purchases on that community. They were glad that they were spending money on luxuries that they don't need. There, I wrote about how they are wasting their lives by criticizing others instead of working on themselves. My writing was inspired by

They immediately exploded. Most of them outright insulted me. One of them said I was not ready to talk to others. In my perspective, they are not open-minded. I got somewhat angry at insults, but I knew that reacting is a bad move. Instead of considering my advice, they were trying to look smarter than I do.

Choose your audience wisely. Don't discount your arguments by picking wrong audiences.

It seems I need to choose better people to associate with. TJ Reeves said 'cut out people who are not going to leave legacies'.

Edited September 6, 2018 by CreamCat

[Misagh]

So if I wrote to you, you should let go of all YOUR egotism, who is the wise one? Me or You?

[CreamCat]

@Misagh Letting go of my ego isn't quick and easy. It is going to take decades.

[pluto]

@CreamCat It definitely will if that's the belief system you have bought into. It could also take 1 second

Never accept others belief systems for facts, create your own. You are the creator of your universe.

Everyone and Everything else is illusion.

[Joseph Maynor]

There is some truth to the idea that idle hands are the devil's workshop.  Most people don't want to help themselves, they'd rather shift their focus externally and lose themselves in something else.  It's really great to just be able to focus on what is good for you to do with your time and to not get distracted.  That's what an advanced personal development person can do.  And an advanced personal development person knows what their authentic actual problem situations are in life and spend their working hours everyday working on those.  The more distracted you are, the more you're a novice in personal development.  And length of time is not necessarily an indication of being past the novice stage either, because a lot of people use personal development work for other purposes than to help improve their lives, such as for entertainment or social interaction.  The more you do personal development work, the more you'll gravitate towards solving your own authentic actual problem situations in your own life.  Most people don't even know what their own authentic actual problem situations are in their own lives.  You gotta know that.  The advanced personal development person knows what their own actual problem situations are and can list them out for you if asked.  If you're not working on your own actual problem situations in your own life, what are you doing with your time instead?  You got people chasing changing the world "out there" when what they should be focused on is solving their own actual problem situations in their lives "in here".  

Edited October 16, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[CreamCat]

3 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

The advanced personal development person knows what their own actual problem situations are and can list them out for you if asked.

What were and are your actual problems?