Sunday, October 02, 2011  Learning to Accept Envy
albert25 said...  I used to envy people in the unhealthy kinds
of ways, but now most of my envy is coupled with admiration
(like when I speak to people who are more intelligent then I am,
I obv. envy them and wanted to be higher IQ myself, but at the
same time admire and respect the person). The "bad" kind of envy
is the one where it comes isolated of these other nobler
feelings.  B. A. said...  when "envy" is in the small benign
dose that you mention, I think it is commonly called other names
with less negative connotations. the typical "envious" guy is a
sore loser, and nobody wants to be friends with sore losers.
being looked down upon can't be that much of a survival
advantage. maybe it's nature's way to make people who's genes'
survival is getting in a desperate situation try desperate
things. volatility is the only hope for the weak. in chess, the
safest thing to do against a weaker opponent is to play a closed
game. against a stronger one, try