She is unattainable, but I aim for her

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Hello, dear friends! Welcome to this new episode of Walk With Johan. It's a real pleasure to see you today, to have you with me for this little stroll, for my little stroll.

And today, we're going to talk about personal development, and in particular... I told you last week, at the end of the episode on learning, we talked last week about learning and the fact that the only thing we know is that we know nothing. So, if you're interested, you can watch or listen to that episode again . I told you that today we're going to talk about improving ourselves morally. But of course, it can be... what we're going to talk about, what I'm going to share with you, it can be extended to other areas.

The central idea of ​​this episode is that becoming a moral being, someone who has great morality... Morality, if we define it very, very simply and in a very summarized way, morality, well it's simply the fact of doing good things. Let's say it in a very summarized way: morality is doing good things. And we all know what's good and what's not good. We know good and evil, only, often, we don't act... even if we know what's good, we don't act well. That's another debate.

And so, if we try to become more and more moral, it takes a lot of time because, unfortunately, it requires aiming for perfection, seeking perfection. And of course, this perfection is impossible to achieve. This is something that the Stoics talked about a lot, the Stoic philosophers, and it is something that is also very present in Christianity, this religion and this philosophy teach us that we can never achieve moral perfection, but on the other hand they teach us that we must seek it, despite everything, we must aim for it.

And there is a great risk of giving up here when we seek moral perfection because we see little progress, that is the risk and that is where I would like to draw your attention today. When we progress morally, unfortunately, we see little progress. When we do physical exercises for example, if you start running, well you will see your progress because you will see that you run faster and faster. If you start to measure the time it takes you to run for an hour for example, well you will realize that you are going faster and faster, so, you will see your progress, you will largely see it, follow it, understand it and you will see that the more it goes, the more you progress, the faster you run.

But for morality, it's different, because the more we progress, the more moral we become, the higher our moral standards become. What does that mean? It means the stronger our expectations, our desire to be a moral person will become. So, the more moral we are and the more we want to be moral and the more we realize that we israel whatsapp number data are far from perfect, that we are far from being a truly moral being. So, that's actually the difficulty and the difference compared to running for example or physical improvements. The more moral we are, the more we realize that we are far from perfect.

For example, someone who gets angry every day, he is more aware of it in fact. So, he does not realize his imperfection, it is normal for him, he is someone who gets angry, period, that's how it is. On the other hand, someone who almost never gets angry but who, I don't know, once every three months or so, will get angry, well, he will realize it and he will regret it and he will feel very bad. So, we feel worse when we do few immoral acts than when we do a lot. That's what we have to remember.

It may seem paradoxical, but in fact it is not the case, that is to say that the more we progress and the higher our expectations, the more we have difficulty accepting our mistakes, accepting our deviations. And the closer we are to the truth, the more we progress morally, well the more we see that we must progress. The more we have progressed, the more we see that we must still progress.

So, the only thing to do when we develop our morality precisely, our moral aspects, well it's to be more demanding with ourselves but also to be more tolerant with others, because it's not their fault in the end. In any case, we could debate this point. But the idea is to tell ourselves that it's not their fault. It's not their fault because they don't realize it.