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Here is an infallible strategy!
How to downsize the vanity, in a person?
2024 June 18 |
Heuristics and biases - Resilience
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We live in a time when vanity is a major driver of human actions.
How can we define it?
Several sources converge in defining vanity as
self-complacency,
overconfidence in one’s abilities, and in attracting others.
With a close connection to narcissism.
The term vanity comes from the Latin vanus, which stands for vain, empty, useless, futile, without material consistency: more appearance than essence.
In short, to scale down or even destroy the concept of vanity in the eyes of a person it may be enough to go to the substance of its meaning and define it for what it is:
nothing!
Don’t you think so?
PS: The painting is Narcissus by Caravaggio.
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