08-18-2012, 12:19 AM
(08-18-2012, 12:07 AM)Riotgear Wrote: Hmmm...I think I could effectively argue that remaining in the position of needing to acknowledge one's weaknesses or not is, in and of itself, a fundamental weakness. A lower plane if you will where time spend contemplating weakness serves as a stumbling blocks to progress. Like 12 step.
I don't think so.
I'm pretty great at celebrating my strengths (and those of others). I'm better at acknowledging and accepting my own weaknesses (which change a lot with effort, time and age) than most people that I know, from my perspective.
Everyone has weaknesses. I've yet to meet a perfect person, but I've met a few who see themselves as perfect and who refuse to acknowledge personal weaknesses (acknowledging and addressing does not equate to "dwelling upon", imo). Those who don't aknowledge their weaknesses don't improve upon them and don't grow, imo. Everything negative that results from their own weaknesses is instead projected or blamed on others, in my experience.
I'm not very familiar with 12 steps, so not qualified to make a comparison to that philosophy at this time.
JMO and perspective...