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Lectures resonated with everyone in the group, mostly from the archetypal narrative it injects into the everyday
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Courage to Fail
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Courage to confront demons
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Courage to try new things
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When to draw the balance of putting skeletons in the closet, versus dealing with them
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Sometimes it seems beneficial to put skeletons in the closet and move on with one’s life
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New relationships, new beginnings, leaving the past behind you
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Simba running away as a kid
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Sometimes it seems beneficial to confront demons head on
- Therapy
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Seems about strength and abilities of the individual at the time, and also if those demons can be left aside, or whether they will grow if unattended
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Discussion of conflict within different cultures
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USA seems to be focused on interpersonal conflict (identity vs identity)
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Europe seems to be focused on governmental conflict (socialism vs capitalism)
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India vs China
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LiveLeak has videos of accidents occurring in India and the entire village runs to help
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LiveLeak has videos of accidents occurring in China, and people continue as if it is an inconvenience to help
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Initial postulation was due to the shear number of people in China, perhaps they don’t value life as much, as there are so many of them everywhere - however this is also true about India, so that rules that out
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Second postulation then evaluated the emotions/motivations of the acts
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That perhaps China’s communism has driven out such spiritual influence, and left the people more nihilistic, and self interested
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However, we are all self interested, but it seems that the difference there could be that western/christian culture indicates that helping others even without direct benefit to yourself, can help the group, and may help you, fulfilling altruistic self-interest - such as the “golden rule” in christianity - india perhaps has this through the western/christian influence, or perhaps hinduism has it - whereas perhaps china’s ideology takes that away from its people
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