Society of Esteem

8October2008

Esteem for performance?

Posted by Cecilia under: Economy.

In our society there are people who cannot work for physical or psychological reasons.   Others may not work because they are too old.   Many countries have pension plans that dictate when citizens have to stop working.  Some people willingly comply with this system.  They look forward to retirement.  Some of them didn’t like their jobs because it wasn’t what they really wanted to do.  After a full working life they are content to enjoy their hobbies and do what they love most.

Other people would prefer to work longer than the mandatory retirement age.  Stopping work only because of age doesn’t make sense to them.  Most likely they work in a job they love to do.  Their profession is their vocation.  They don’t see any reason to stop working as long as they’re healthy and successful.

The society of esteem allows everybody to work as long as they want to.  There are always people who want to stop working early in their lives, they can do it in the society of esteem.  The main reason why people want to work until old age is that everybody in the society of esteem chooses the job according to their talents and personal preferences.  Everybody works at the place they want to be, they perform the best and they get the most satisfaction. 

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25September2008

Esteem for our work

Posted by Cecilia under: Economy.

In the economy we have occupations.  If you are one of the lucky ones in our society you get to have a job that is also your vocation. These are the people who are happy in their work and glad for each new working day.  Working hours are often not enough, because they are so fulfilled by their tasks.

More often work in our society means drudgery.  Surveys have shown that many people aren’t happy in their work. Each evening they can hardly wait to leave. They don’t find their vocation in their work but perhaps in their spare time, in their hobbies.

Why are so many people unhappy with their job? We could find the reason for that in the economic system of our society and in the rules of the hierarchy of value. Most people don’t choose their jobs according to their abilities but rather to the amount of the wages.  Work in our society primarily means earning money.

In the society of esteem economy works differently. The choices of the occupation occur according to the talents. In the society of esteem each single talent is esteemed, therefore the choice of career happens free of exterior stimulation such as money.  Each occupation is equally valuable.  Work means self-fulfillment.

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1August2008

Esteeming education for teenagers and adults

Posted by Cecilia under: Education.

You live and learn. This is a life wisdom every adult person knows from their own experience.  What we know less in our society is the freedom to learn at any time, at every age and to learn a second or third profession without a negative impact on our career.  We have little experience in tuning our learning to our own wishes.  In our modern society learning is adapted to a learning plan, course times and given places.  We seldom have the freedom to intensify our learning at certain times or to interrupt it at other times.

In the society of esteem education is provided with esteem.  This means that every person realizes his or her own education by themselves. 

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12July2008

Esteeming education for children

Posted by Cecilia under: Education.

The foundation of our educational system is the system itself.  The school is an institution.  Institutions offer security and quality – these are the advantages. Institutions are slow and only laborious to modernize – these are the disadvantages.  School as an institution wants to guarantee education for everybody.  But school as an institution causes a leveling of the knowledge and the students.

If we look at the world from the point of view of the society of esteem institutions are not longer necessary as guarantor for security and quality.  Most important for education is esteem.  What does this mean?

Every child is an individual.  Every child has his own character, his strengths and weaknesses.  Every child owns his unique talents.

Our educational system summarizes a group of children of the same age in one school class.  Let’s look at these children.  One of these children has no trouble learning mathematics.  Another child has a great athletic talent.  A third child would rather play than learn.  How do we want to summarize all these children?

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14June2008

Esteem replies to hierarchy of values, part 2

Posted by Cecilia under: Philosophy.

Hierarchy of values is the basis of our society. It works because two important points are fulfilled in the everyday life: comparison and competition.

In the last post, I wrote about comparison.  Today we’ll look at competition.

In a society with a hierarchy of values competition causes survival or death.   This may sounds overly dramatic but even the loss of a job can have sometimes tragic effects.

It’s quite common to assume that top performances can only be produced if we are driven by competition.  In a society with hierarchy of values it’s like this. The driving force of competition is fear of losing prestige, recognition and esteem. The loser in a competition is treated as less valuable, and is considered as less esteemed. Whatever achievements are created under competitive pressure they lead to short-term results and long-term human failures because of frustration, stress and fear.

The society of esteem knows no competition in this sense. Each person receives the same esteem for whatever his effort is. That’s why the people in the society of esteem are free from fearful feelings. People do what they do best and what they are able to do best. If there is a kind of competition in the society of esteem then it’s in the form of an internal impulse. As soon as our profession is a vocation we push ourselves freely to peak performance because we like our work and because our nature leads us to growing self-development.

The society of esteem replies to the hierarchy of values with esteem. If we live in a society of esteem we don’t have to deal with competitive stress. We can freely concentrate upon ourselves and our abilities. Only this brings us higher achievements lasting as long as our health and happiness.

Those who produce top performances with joy, motivation and full strength are the best foundation for a growing, healthy and equitable society.

28May2008

Esteem replies to hierarchy of values, part 1

Posted by Cecilia under: Philosophy.

We live in a world of hierarchical values .  A hierarchy of values can also be called a gradations of values. One thing is worth more than something else.  One person is worth more than the other. We’ve known this since our childhood.

The hierarchy of values is based on two important points: comparison and competition. Today I’ll address comparisons. Comparing people with each other is the basis for a hierarchy of values. I don’t need to mention what kind of feelings comparisons impose on us. We internalize comparing so much that we often make no step in our life without comparing. We compare ourselves with others and we are also compared unceasingly.

Who among us doesn’t recognize our society in this picture?  Who recognizes himself in this picture?

The society of esteem knows no hierarchy of values, it knows esteem. There is no comparison among people. On which basis do we compare ourselves?  Each of us is unique and incomparable in the truest sense of the word. Being compared at an unequal level creates injustice of which we try to compensate incessantly. Read the rest of this entry »

6May2008

The mysterious self-esteem

Posted by Cecilia under: Attitude.

Your fingers can’t touch it. Your eyes can’t see it. Your nose can’t smell it. And your tongue can’t taste it.

But nevertheless, it’s here: the self-esteem. Each time you talk about yourself you talk about your self-esteem. Our self-esteem may be small like unfortunately in so many of us. It may be big which is admirable in our society . We simply don’t exist without self-esteem!

I’d like to wish: hopefully for you self-esteem isn’t mysterious but real!

17April2008

Esteem is no means to an end

Posted by Cecilia under: Economy.

You often hear that companies can increase their productivity if they show esteem toward their employees.

This thought is basically a good approach and employees would generally be glad about it.  But: How do you feel when the esteem you receive is bound to expectations.

Esteem is only authentic esteem if it comes sincerely, no return service is expected and it radiates genuiness.  It’s quite easy: we can’t use esteem as a means to an end.

2April2008

Homo honoris - the esteem human being

Posted by Cecilia under: Science.

According to the newest finding in Spain we have fresh the oldest human being, homo antecessor. We know about homo sapiens who developed from homo antecessor.

The end of this chain is homo honoris, the esteem human being! Homo honoris is esteeming through his whole existence. With this existential basic setting toward esteem homo honoris is able to change his life sphere accordingly.

To live with esteem means: holistic fullfilled individual life, roundly successful social life as well as respect and esteem towards all people and the whole nature. It’s only a question of time when homo honoris emerges definitively out of homo sapiens

22March2008

Hurray! I have received an esteem!

Posted by Cecilia under: Attitude.

All right. May I ask for what we receive esteem?

If we do what another person wants of us. Or if we are rich. Or if we have an important profession. Or if we are intelligent. Or … The enumeration is endless. Each of us can enumerate something as experienced in life.

In Sikantis it reads as follows: Hurray! I receive esteem. Not only one. Not only for an action. And not only once in a while. The people in Sikantis receive always esteem for themselves as person and for their talents, whatever these are.

Yes, in Sikantis the people can cheer permanently.