How to Be an Idealist
Believe in some form of definite way of doing or understanding things., Be dependable in your efforts to reach your goals on your principles. , Avoid depending upon doing or accepting favors like buying a resistant opponents help., Try not to...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Believe in some form of definite way of doing or understanding things.
Determine your personal standards of accuracy and consider whether they are rather absolute.
This can help assemble your strong concepts and idealized feelings as clearly as possible. -
Step 2: Be dependable in your efforts to reach your goals on your principles.
, In the long run you can not depend on such persons. , Do not trade your real beliefs lightly (Do not give up your ideals/idealism.) to get concessions.
Do not accept views that you find to be wrong and therefore probably unacceptable, and so do not "give something important to get things that are less important." In politics, for example to get, or to attempt to get, what you want by "any means" possible is not acceptable, as that implies lack of honest principles.
Do not accept the middle of the road compromise, which is an incorrect way
-- but instead maintain your definite principles and morals without hypocrisy. , will often lower the harshness of the argument of the two sides. ,,: possibly this involves religious absolutes or political principles.
The other side may try to wear you down, such as trying to get you to give up and quit trying. ,,,,, -
Step 3: Avoid depending upon doing or accepting favors like buying a resistant opponents help.
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Step 4: Try not to compromise your ideals with opponents who will not accept your strong belief.
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Step 5: Be well-mannered
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Step 6: patient and sensitive to other people's feelings and opinions/beliefs: Saying
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Step 7: "You have a right to your own opinion."
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Step 8: Avoid wasting time arguing with people of strong opposite views.
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Step 9: Defend your beliefs especially if they are absolutes
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Step 10: Be very persistent in presenting your "facts" without becoming angry and upset.
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Step 11: Be fair and balanced by treating everybody the same: and as much as possible accept individual differences of opinion and belief.
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Step 12: Realize that you may be enough of an idealist to see the opposite view as not worth much consideration
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Step 13: and though that seems harsh
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Step 14: you as an idealist will probably be quite persistent
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Step 15: not wishy-washy.
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Step 16: Be kind and loving
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Step 17: when you must disagree
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Step 18: though you may feel that agreeing is not at all "practical" in your understanding of the facts.
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Step 19: Refine your efforts and come back to try again on another day
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Step 20: if necessary.
Detailed Guide
Determine your personal standards of accuracy and consider whether they are rather absolute.
This can help assemble your strong concepts and idealized feelings as clearly as possible.
, In the long run you can not depend on such persons. , Do not trade your real beliefs lightly (Do not give up your ideals/idealism.) to get concessions.
Do not accept views that you find to be wrong and therefore probably unacceptable, and so do not "give something important to get things that are less important." In politics, for example to get, or to attempt to get, what you want by "any means" possible is not acceptable, as that implies lack of honest principles.
Do not accept the middle of the road compromise, which is an incorrect way
-- but instead maintain your definite principles and morals without hypocrisy. , will often lower the harshness of the argument of the two sides. ,,: possibly this involves religious absolutes or political principles.
The other side may try to wear you down, such as trying to get you to give up and quit trying. ,,,,,
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