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Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Stop Demonizing People

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Leo Gura

Self-help, Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Why you are wrong for calling terrorists evil.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

0:03.8

In this video with an exercise.

0:25.0

And you're going to do the exercise now that I'm going to talk and then at the very end of the video,

0:30.0

I'm going to tell you how to actually use this exercise and

0:33.2

get a lot of value out of it. So here's the exercise. In a second I'm going to

0:38.7

pause the video. I'm going to have a blank screen for you. You're going to

0:41.7

pause the video and then you're going to do this. You're going to get a blank screen for you. You're going to pause the video, and then you're going to do this.

0:44.0

You're going to get a piece of paper. On the top of this piece of paper, you're going to write the three people I despise the most are, and then you're going to write one two three and you're going to

0:57.9

write down the names of the three people that you despise the most in your life.

1:03.0

By despise I mean you really don't like them.

1:07.0

They really gall you.

1:08.0

Maybe you openly despise them, maybe you kind of secretly despise them

1:12.0

and you don't really even admit to yourself that you

1:13.5

despise this person.

1:15.0

Maybe you tell yourself that you're a person that doesn't think that other people are despicable,

1:19.0

that you like everybody.

1:21.0

Well, I want to tell you that you should be really self-honist on this exercise and really dig deep and see who are the people out there in your life that really gall you.

1:32.0

You're going to pick three people.

1:33.0

Now, a lot of times when I say this, people will go and pick the obvious, most obvious examples of evil people like Hitler and Osama bin Laden, as people they despise. I'd say stay away from

1:45.0

those for now. Instead focus on people you know a little bit more intimately.

1:48.6

These can be people that you know personally from your family life or your friends or your

1:54.3

colleagues at work or your boss or it could be a celebrity that perhaps you kind of

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