This is http://www.essayz.com/a8910163.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SCIENTISTS IDEALS VALUES OBJECTIVE SUCCESS 891016 Scientists' preoccupation with the ideals and values which are central to objective successes undermine their ability to respond appropriately to predicaments by: (1) Diverting attention from personal facts, relationships and skills which are essential to responding appropriately to predicaments, as contrasted to technical problems. (2) Generating aversive reactions towards personal attitudes, experiences, concepts, feelings and behaviors which are essential to responding appropriately to predicaments, as contrasted to technical problems. Given such aversive reactions even when attention is not diverted, the attention is likely to become focused by fear rather than by Love, and so lead to disintegrative behaviors. When people are apparently being successful in terms of their traditional ideals and values it is hard to make a case that their ideals and values are disintegrative. It becomes necessary to redefine the meaning of success in terms of consideration of personal and communal integrity, rather than in terms of other less important considerations. Failure can not be recognized when disintegrative ideals and values are playing dominant roles in attitudes, thought patterns and behaviors. These considerations will be important in giving proper guidance to scientists who are addicted to non- integrative values such as are those scientists who are addicted to pure research without giving consideration to the personal consequences of their addiction. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================