Thursday, September 11, 2008

The most important quality

If I were asked "What is the most important quality that a person should have?" I would invariably say: "The desire to learn, improve and change". Every other quality can be procured by this quality. It is this quality that has proved to be the most useful to me and it is this quality that allows me to increase and expand the set of good qualities that I have. But for that there are certain pre-requisites:

1) You must realize the necessity of improvement.
2) You must reduce your ego to the extent that you accept your shortcomings.
3) You must recognize opportunities to improve or acquire a trait.
4) You must try to imbibe those qualites wholeheartedly.

6 comments:

shrill said...

have i trampled stephen covey's incognito blog??
thank you for proferring these pearls of wisdom mr.philosopher...
yes..how contented can one be with life??
contentment leads to stagnation..
so CARPE DIEM!!

The Thoughtful Philosopher said...

[shrill]
Stephen covey? Oh no. Stephen's blog would probably have more mature writing...... :)

pearls of wisdom??? Nooooo. Ya think???

Hmmm contentment ......... that's another topic I'm gonna be blogging about sometime soon. Contentment need not mean lack of ambition......... but more of that another day.

kochuthresiamma p .j said...

"The desire to learn, improve and change'
yes. besides, these qualities are the secret to eternal youth - if youth is a state of mind.

The Thoughtful Philosopher said...

[ kochuthresiamma p .j]
Not IF,kochuthresiamma, youth IS a state of mind. And these qualities are SOME of the secrets to eternal youth.

SUBHADIP said...

Hi.thanks a lot for your view..I saw your blog its a wonderful blog and written beautifully..

The Thoughtful Philosopher said...

[subhadip]
thank you very much.