What is more important being right or being kind?
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What is more important being right or being kind?
“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.”
Why should you choose kind over being right?
You are given many opportunities to choose between being kind and being right. You have chances to point out to someone their mistakes, things they could or should have done differently, ways they can improve. You have chances to “correct” people, privately as well as in front of others.
WHO said it is better to be kind than to be right?
Gautama Buddha quote: Sometimes it’s better to be kind than to be right…
What does it mean to give the choice to be right or be kind?
The precept for September “When given the choice of being right or being kind CHOOSE KIND” this means to me, that if you choose right you’ll have no kindness because then you’ll be to busy correcting people of what they do and never make time to make friends, or have fun when you choose kind you can make friends and …
Why being right is important?
We are rewarded for what are deemed to be correct answers and the ensuing higher grades, which generally lead to more successful lives. Being right affirms and inflates our sense of self-worth. As students we learn to avoid as best we can the embarrassment of being wrong.
Is it more important to be kind or smart?
There is no kindness without intelligence. Since there can be intelligence without kindness, and intelligence can be useful outside kind deeds, then intelligence is necessarily more important than kindness. It is possible to conceive of a society where no one is kind but everyone is pleased.
Why is Being Right important?
Why is it important to be kind?
Why is kindness important? When we practice kindness either to other people or towards ourselves we can experience positive mental and physical changes through lowering stress levels and increasing the body’s production of feel-good hormones such as dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin.
Why Being kind is so important?
How do you choose kindness?
Choosing kindness doesn’t come easy to us. We are wired in a way that makes it much easier for us to react to something in a negative way….Don’t forget to be kind to yourself too
- Respect yourself.
- Forgive others but don’t forget to forgive yourself.
- Focus on yourself.
- Keep a self-care journal.
Is kindness a choice?
How we treat others should be a choice that reflects our character — not a reaction to other people’s character. So, I choose to be kind because my kindness will define me.
Is being kind more important than being right?
“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald I keep this quote as the background on my phone because it is significant to a mindset and lifestyle change I have taken the past year.
Is being right more important than being smart?
By extension, when one is raised to be smart, one learns to value being right. Being right was very important. Whether it was knowing who played Professor Potter in the 1938 film, “Holiday” (Edward Everett Horton), or recalling the date of the Watergate break-in (June 17, 1972), being right was the perceived equivalent to being smart.
Should we give up the need to always be right?
I will say that giving up the need to always be right, it’s one of the most important lessons we can learn from life, a lesson that will help us achieve peace of mind and improve the quality of our relationship, not only with those around us but with ourselves also. Who cares if you are right or not?
Do You Ever Feel Good being right?
And it never feels good. Being right is so overrated, especially when it comes at the expense of basic human kindnesses. Inherent in the need to be right is the desire — consciously or not — to put ourselves above others, to make them wrong in order to appease our own insecurities and our ego’s need to be perfect.