The Competent Human Being

By Wim Baren

What does it mean to be a 'competent human being'? This small tract explores why we are not so well served by all the many personal growth and self-development literature and programs out in the world today. It offers a simpler approach to embedding the kinds of virtues (personality attributes) we look for in others and hope we display in interactions with them. A few basic principles underpin our ideas, and show how a straightforward understanding of our natural biological self-defence systems should be accommodated to help us master all those best virtues we see in others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wim Baren
• Release date: Sep 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005160197

Wim Baren

About The Author, Wim BarenWim Baren is the author’s pen name. He lives a stone’s throw from Colonial Williamsburg, a place rich in history. He imagines himself a novelist. He’s written two full-length tales set in long-ago times. He’s also written a couple of short stories, and a bunch of short broadsheets about his creative writing experiences and insights. All of these are on Smashwords, and almost all of them are free.As of the date of this writing, he’s feverishly inventing two new tales, also set in ancient times. One is a sequel to “The Crimson Emperor” – a fabulously romantic tale about Byzantium known by practically nobody – and another is an alternative history surrounding the Empress Theodora of Byzantium, a larger-than-life novel about the most powerful woman in the 6th century world at the time. That period of the Eastern Roman Empire did not lack excitement, to say the least...So, with a spouse he dotes upon and a pleasant prospect over which his front entrance looks to stimulate his thoughts, he’s got a quiet and most enjoyable lifestyle. Would that everybody could enjoy the same, or more...Thought and ideas are welcome, courteously done.mailto:[e-mail]

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One Inspired Writer

The Competent Human Being

- A Sublime Personal Philosophy -

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WIM BAREN

Copyright September 2020

Westminster & York, Ltd.

ISBN: 978 – 1 – 0051 – 6019 - 7

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Sections

The Theme: We can perfect ourselves as competent human beings

What does it mean to be a ‘competent human being?’

We have all the gifts we need to become competent human beings

We all seek ways to bring us closer to something good - being competent human beings

Achieving competence as human beings starts within ourselves

What does our ‘competent human being’ look like?

Current approaches do not offer the deep transformation we seek

What this approach is, and isnot

Our survival mechanisms drive our first responses to anyone and anything

Three virtuesare key to perfecting and using all our other gifts

Gratitude, Loving-Kindness and Self-Compassion work together in support ofallour other good qualities

The qualities we’ve selected, and why not others

A way to understand how much we prefer and use each of these qualities

The Profile Tool: its purpose