This is http://www.essayz.com/b0212202.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.} ========================================================== %RISK MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL POSITIONS ATTITUDES HOPE+021220 %THOUGHTS BELIEFS BEHAVIORS OPPOSITE COMPLEMENTARY+021220 %CONFLICT EXTREME LEARNING MISTAKES ERRORS FAILURE+021220 %NATURAL CONSEQUENCES IMPURITY AVOID DENY REPRESS+021220 %LOVE ESTRANGEMENT FRIENDSHIP ARROGANCE HONESTY+021220 %INDEPENDENT INTERDEPENDENCE PRIDE HUMILITY SUCCESS+021220 %FAILURE INTIMACY SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS CENTEREDNESS 021220 We each need in various complementary ways: 1. To recognize and talk about the risks of our own EXTREME: positions, attitudes, thoughts, beliefs and behaviors. 2. To help those at opposite/complementary extremes to recognize & manage the risks of their own EXTREME: positions, attitudes, thoughts, beliefs and behaviors. 3. To cooperate in building safe sanctuaries wherein we can all learn from different people about risk- management at various EXTREMES --- by learning from our own and from each other's mistakes, errors and failures. 4. To learn and talk about the risks entailed in going to the ESTEEM of trying to avoid or eliminate all: errors, mistakes, failures, impurities; i.e., trying to avoid all risks. 5. To be wise about the risks of: alienation, love; estrangement, friendship; arrogance, honesty; independence, interdependence; pride, humility; success, failure; intimacy, self-righteousness; self-centeredness, consumerism, communism; narcissism etc. 6. To help EXTREMISTS to learn from the natural consequences of their failures to do as suggested above. 7. To protect ourselves in gracious ways from the natural consequences of extremists NOT learning from the natural consequences of their failures to do as suggested above. 8. To avoid copying the domineering patterns of the behaviors of extremists who fail in ways which are suggested above. 9. To recognize which RESOURCES are truly limited as to the available supply; and which other RESOURCES can be expanded through the use of RESOURCES which are NOT truly limited as to the available supply; e.g., as among: particular elements/minerals, fuels, energy, power; principles, values, ideals, role-models; knowledge, understandings, insights; health, reconciliation, cooperation, sanctuaries, integrities, humane-talents, diplomacy, peacemaking, conflict-resolution, hospitality, civility; technology, science; spirituality, etc. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================