Comments on: Getting real http://buddhavacana.net/2009/02/23/getting-real/ Have a nice day ... unless you have other plans! Mon, 14 May 2012 02:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: hongleong http://buddhavacana.net/2009/02/23/getting-real/#comment-192 hongleong Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://buddhavacana.net/blog/?p=139#comment-192 Quote: "You cannot improve the world just by being right. You need to convince others of that fact if you want to exert influence." This is the tough part... Somehow not everyone is interested to be right or to do the right thing. And since truth often hurts, it's very difficult to inform, let alone convince, them that they need to pull up their socks. I guess the lesson here is not to give up, but to continue to create the conditions for them to want to be convinced. If not this life, maybe next, and next, and next... :) Quote: “You cannot improve the world just by being right. You need to convince others of that fact if you want to exert influence.”

This is the tough part… Somehow not everyone is interested to be right or to do the right thing. And since truth often hurts, it’s very difficult to inform, let alone convince, them that they need to pull up their socks.

I guess the lesson here is not to give up, but to continue to create the conditions for them to want to be convinced. If not this life, maybe next, and next, and next… :)

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