I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'This the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. - Leonardo da Vinci
“FRAGILE” is the best word to describe the characters of today’s young ones! Closely observed to day we have numerous followers rather than leaders! Attributes such as innovation, creativity, leadership and more needs to be taught and inculcated rather than self-developed among the lads
This are the effects of living in a group and taking up a group identity as the identity of the self rather than having individuality or principles in life, take a test, if you have a group of students, instruct them to speak up or present an idea in front of the others, first thing up avoiding and resistance takes place and worst hey tend to back off and push their friend forward which eventually does the same!
When wondering why this happens, it pricks that this is due to unavailability of understanding or knowing the self, this then results to the lack of self-principle and confidence which are the sustaining tools of the self!
One should always have the above said qualities which in a cluster will build up the character of the self and through that they would develop a way of thinking and a way of carrying themselves, a good mixture of all this creates a charismatic leadership quality and a great personality which is lacking among many adolescents today
Unfortunately today, the education system emphasizes more on grading which only contributes to route learning and parents or the significant others related in parenting are more prudent towards academic achievement rather than character development amongst adolescents
Adolescents must understand the basic values of life and develop principles for themselves and learn to stand firm in their principles. Only when this happens they would have character and the other related attributes for living such as leadership, creativity etc. which overall brings forth maturity and a well-balanced developed youth whom would be able to sustain themselves towards being a charismatic leader or personality
Acquiring only knowledge isn’t an indicator of having balanced mental development, but building up a character along with the knowledge contributes to “mutual development” … i.e. know a dictionary and the ability to use a dictionary is 2 different things …
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