Turning a negative into a positive, turning weaknesses into strengths. It is perhaps the most important skill anyone can have. The terms "weakness" and "strength," when used describing character traits, are really just based upon the results derived by the person with the trait. Anything can be transformed into a strength.
Getting to the title of today's article, not caring can be the ultimate weakness and the ultimate strength. Think about it - the dream is sipping rum drinks on a beach, that you own, in the company of honourable men and beautiful women, not caring about a thing: strictly just being, and taking pleasure from "being" in the best sense of the word as you know how. It can be easy to get there using the same technique: don't care.
Getting to the title of today's article, not caring can be the ultimate weakness and the ultimate strength. Think about it - the dream is sipping rum drinks on a beach, that you own, in the company of honourable men and beautiful women, not caring about a thing: strictly just being, and taking pleasure from "being" in the best sense of the word as you know how. It can be easy to get there using the same technique: don't care.
Some may say that if you don't care, you won't get anywhere. I'm saying that you channel that not-caring into the mindset of having no risk associated with your actions. Note I didn't say no risk associated with your decisions. I'll get back to this later. IF you don't care about he consequences of failure, then you'll go ahead and just DO things without hesitation. As long as you're making smart choices about WHAT you do you'll probably be succeeding at most of what you attempt. In this way you'll always be climbing life's ladder, but fearless about how high up you are. You'll just see that there's another rung, and keep on climbing. What you could do is limitless.
Returning to risk: Every action has associated risk. It would be pointless to try and live a life without risk for that's unachievable. What we all do every day is make decisions about what to engage in and what not to based on the risk involved with failing at the task versus the reward achieved from succeeding at the task. We don't articulately, explicitly do this with every single decision we make; rather it's a decision made so fast it feels automatic and goes by unnoticed at all.
Returning to risk: Every action has associated risk. It would be pointless to try and live a life without risk for that's unachievable. What we all do every day is make decisions about what to engage in and what not to based on the risk involved with failing at the task versus the reward achieved from succeeding at the task. We don't articulately, explicitly do this with every single decision we make; rather it's a decision made so fast it feels automatic and goes by unnoticed at all.
After the decision's made - whatever the scale - we are done considering risks and we just go forth with the task. So even with a risky task, the hard part is not accomplishing the task itself but deciding whether or not the task is worth accomplishing. In this way your decisions do bear risk. But once you've decided to do something, you cannot waste time being burdened by the risk associated with failure. If you just don't care, you'll simply plunder ahead doing.
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