2) Does "excellence" mean "quality" and "virtue," if so, o.k. But i think excellence is overrated as a goal. Tiger mother turned me off real bad. Her approach will make or break a growing human being; it will break far more than it makes.
7)Yes, acceptance and striving are important, but the proper balance is not fifty-fifty. Acceptance is far more important, in my opinion, for human being.
9)Most people who are brutally honest with themselves will recognize that they have severe limitations as human beings. If they have a strength somewhere they can be sure to have an equal and compensating weakness in another area. Most people (i almost said all people)who believe the bulk of proposition nine seem to me to be incapable of being "brutally" honest about themselves; many such hardly know themselves. There are many things i do notice that i cannot change, and, if they are things worth noticing (like injustice, oppression, arrogance) noticing them just makes me angry, so i had better control my anger before i start to think about, for example, people who believe proposition 9).
Qualified acceptance only for 2), 7), and 9).
7)Yes, acceptance and striving are important, but the proper balance is not fifty-fifty. Acceptance is far more important, in my opinion, for human being.
9)Most people who are brutally honest with themselves will recognize that they have severe limitations as human beings. If they have a strength somewhere they can be sure to have an equal and compensating weakness in another area. Most people (i almost said all people)who believe the bulk of proposition nine seem to me to be incapable of being "brutally" honest about themselves; many such hardly know themselves. There are many things i do notice that i cannot change, and, if they are things worth noticing (like injustice, oppression, arrogance) noticing them just makes me angry, so i had better control my anger before i start to think about, for example, people who believe proposition 9).