<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2016-03-30 13:32, Ben wrote:<br>
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Many people will then jump to the opposite extreme, and object that without humility, people automatically become hubristic. Not so. Again, another false concept that's handy for keeping people under control. Humility and Hubris are extremes on a scale. Most people can happily and beneficially exist in the middle. <br>
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Very Aristotelian. It is a virtue to have a balanced self-model, being aware of one's limitations and potential insofar they can be known.<br>
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Self-esteem should be tied to how well one is actually doing; inflated self-esteem is linked to a lot of maladaptive ego-defense mechanisms, while too low self-esteem of course prevents one from doing things that woulkd help one grow. But it is hard to tell from the inside: this is where objective evaluations and frank (but supportive) friends are invaluable.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Anders Sandberg<br>
Future of Humanity Institute<br>
Oxford Martin School<br>
Oxford University</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">There is some really interesting data on depressives. It turns out that their view of reality is closer to the actual than most peoples'. Other data suggest that an inflated view of one's abilities actually results in greater achievements than a more realistic one. </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">It may be that an inflated view produces efforts that others say will fail. And many will do so, but perhaps a few will succeed spectacularly. I also note that many highly successful people have made fortunes and gone broke several times each.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Quote of the day: "You can go around being frank with people, or you can have friends."</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Pun of the day: "I subscribed to a magazine and did what everyone said could not be done: I took a Horticulture."</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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