Peter Jones
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Podcast Appearances
Okay, so if I say, right, I am a worm, I'll act like that, I'll just say I can't do anything, I'm no good at everything.
That's what Thomas Aquinas called pusillanimity, weakness of spirit.
And you're not standing up for yourself, and ultimately, therefore, you're not being useful.
I probably can rewire that plug.
But, you know, maybe there is something interesting to say.
You've done some research.
You've got something interesting to say.
Don't be weak of spirit.
You know, go on History Hit.
But when it becomes, you know, if I then sort of say, well, and it's fantastic, and all of these other scholars, you know, they got it totally wrong.
You know, then we're starting to push into an area where I'm getting into that excessive place where I'm...
I'm starting to be a bit antisocial, you know what I mean?
So the message of that one is to recognize when are you overestimating your own limits?
When have you gone beyond self-awareness and self-knowledge and now you're inflating and kind of inventing an alternative self?
So it's kind of combating the deadly sins is all about recognizing their limits, where they go beyond a boundary that's kind of socially acceptable.