Zitat des Tages über Selbstwertigkeit / Self-Importance:
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.