Becoming Better
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Becoming Better
What if you could unlock a path to realizing true personal transformation-not just doing better, but becoming better? Many people chase improvement but remain stuck, frustrated by progress that feels incremental at best. That's because most self-improvement strategies focus on one's Doing Side-their level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. While valuable, this approach only scratches the surface of what's possible. In Becoming Better, Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Ryan Gottfredson, PhD, teaches you that transformational growth requires a shift to a deeper dimension known as your Being Side-the quality of your mindsets, emotional depth, and regulatory abilities. It is this unseen foundation that shapes how you experience the world and how the world experiences you. But few understand their Being Side, let alone how to elevate it. Through this book, you'll learn how to unlock the power of your Being Side to step into your ideal self. Leveraging groundbreaking scientific research, Gottfredson provides cutting-edge guidance, powerful tools, and practical exercises to help you learn: - What your Being Side is and why it matters. - How to assess the current quality of your Being Side. - Proven strategies to upgrade your Being Side. This journey is about more than self-improvement-it's a blueprint for truly elevating your life, your impact, and your being. If you're ready to become not just a better doer but a better being, this book will show you the way.
Becoming Better Muslims
Author: David Kloos
language: en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 2017-11-28
How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the state and religion? Becoming Better Muslims offers an innovative account of the dynamic interactions between individual Muslims, religious authorities, and the state in Aceh, Indonesia. Relying on extensive historical and ethnographic research, David Kloos offers a detailed analysis of religious life in Aceh and an investigation into today’s personal processes of ethical formation. Aceh is known for its history of rebellion and its recent implementation of Islamic law. Debunking the stereotypical image of the Acehnese as inherently pious or fanatical, Kloos shows how Acehnese Muslims reflect consciously on their faith and often frame their religious lives in terms of gradual ethical improvement. Revealing that most Muslims view their lives through the prism of uncertainty, doubt, and imperfection, he argues that these senses of failure contribute strongly to how individuals try to become better Muslims. He also demonstrates that while religious authorities have encroached on believers and local communities, constraining them in their beliefs and practices, the same process has enabled ordinary Muslims to reflect on moral choices and dilemmas, and to shape the ways religious norms are enforced. Arguing that Islamic norms are carried out through daily negotiations and contestations rather than blind conformity, Becoming Better Muslims examines how ordinary people develop and exercise their religious agency.
The Art of Becoming Good
A thousand years ago, a philosopher in Baghdad wrote the most sophisticated guide to becoming a good person that the medieval world had ever seen. His name was Miskawayh. Almost nobody knows him today. This book changes that. The Art of Becoming Good introduces the extraordinary life and thought of Ahmad ibn Muhammad Miskawayh (c. 932–1030 CE) — court librarian, historian, alchemist, and the Islamic world's greatest moral philosopher — whose masterwork, the Tahdhib al-Akhlaq (Refinement of Character), mapped the human soul with a precision and warmth that still commands admiration a millennium later. Miskawayh believed that character is not fate. The soul has three faculties — rational, spirited, and appetitive — each capable of being trained toward virtue or allowed to slide into vice. Happiness, he argued, is not luck or circumstance but the activity of a well-ordered soul: and the soul can be ordered, shaped, refined, through deliberate practice, honest self-examination, and the particular alchemy of genuine friendship. Drawing on Greek philosophy, Persian court wisdom, and Islamic faith without being reducible to any of them, Miskawayh produced a vision of the good life that feels startlingly modern: empirical, psychologically rich, suspicious of abstraction, and deeply concerned with the question of how actual human beings — flawed, distracted, perpetually tempted — can become genuinely better. Written with the clarity and passion of the best popular philosophy, The Art of Becoming Good traces Miskawayh's world (the glittering intellectual culture of Buyid Baghdad), his three major works, his theory of virtue and happiness, his radical philosophy of friendship, and his urgent relevance to our own age of algorithmic distraction, moral fragmentation, and the desperate need for the very thing he prescribed: the patient, lifelong art of becoming good. Begin. Continue. Begin again. That is all Miskawayh asks of us — and all any philosopher worth reading has ever asked.