PERSONALITY & YOU
What is an Attitude?
Your Attitude helps describe what things mean to you or the way you see life: bringing insight to your philosophical outlook and the patterns of logic you interpret around or within you.
When you change the way you see the world- you change the way you live life. As such, this is your WHY of seeing things as you do.
You can bring Awareness to your Attitude by asking: "What is true about this?", "How has this truth/the way I see this thing- impacted my life?" and "How helpful and constructive is that impact?"
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The most Immediate Contexts where you can see your Attitude in motion are in the Midst of Social Situations (Gatherings, Workplace, School) and especially in First Impressions.
Any time you exchange information by listening to and communicating with others or yourself via expression (or lack thereof), your Attitude is at the fore- seeking commonalities or discovering difficulties to your viewpoints. Your Attitude helps bring light to how you express, question, evolve and clarify your truths- or protect, reason, excuse and hide them.
There are 7 Attitudes, and each individual has one:
SEEING LIFE THROUGH EMOTIONAL PERCEPTION
STOICISM- Philosophy of one's Nature or what HAS BEEN- ranges from -Resignation to +Tranquility.
SPIRITUALISM- Philosophy of one's Possibility or what COULD BE- ranges from -Belief to +Verification.
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SEEING LIFE AS FORM and IDEA
SKEPTICISM- Philosophy of Disproving or what MIGHT NOT BE- ranges from -Suspicion to +Investigation.
IDEALISM- Philosophy of Improving or what SHOULD BE- ranges from -Naivety to +Coalescence.
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SEEING LIFE IN TERMS of TANGIBILITY
CYNICISM- Philosophy of Active Opposition or what ISN'T- ranges from -Denigration to +Contradiction.
REALISM- Philosophy of Fact/Reality or what IS- ranges from -Subjectivity to +Objectivity.
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SEEING LIFE THROUGH CAUSE & EFFECT
PRAGMATISM- Philosophy of What Works or what MUST BE- ranges from -Dogma to +Practicality.
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The -Pole describes how your thinking is fueled by Anxiety/Resistance; while the +Pole describes how your thinking is fueled by Openness/Truth.
SLIDING
To move from - to +, each Attitude uses its Stoic/Spiritualist, Skeptic/Idealist or Cynic/Realist partner trait- or uses Pragmatism for a dose of neutrality and assimilation.
This is called "sliding".
Pragmatism, being neutral, can slide to any of these 6 Attitudes to move from - to +.
