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    The Competent Human Being
    The Competent Human Being
    The Competent Human Being
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    The Competent Human Being

    By Wim Baren

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    What does it mean to be a 'competent human being'? This small tract explores why we are not so well served by all the many personal growth and self-development literature and programs out in the world today. It offers a simpler approach to embedding the kinds of virtues (personality attributes) we look for in others and hope we display in interactions with them. A few basic principles underpin our ideas, and show how a straightforward understanding of our natural biological self-defence systems should be accommodated to help us master all those best virtues we see in others.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWim Baren
    Release dateSep 7, 2020
    ISBN9781005160197
    The Competent Human Being
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    Wim Baren

    About The Author, Wim Baren Wim Baren is the author's pen name. He lives a stone's throw from Colonial Williamsburg, a place rich in history. He imagines himself a novelist. He's written two full-length tales set in long-ago times. He's also written a couple of short stories, and a bunch of short broadsheets about his creative writing experiences and insights. All of these are on Smashwords, and almost all of them are free. As of the date of this writing, he's feverishly inventing two new tales, also set in ancient times. One is a sequel to "The Crimson Emperor" – a fabulously romantic tale about Byzantium known by practically nobody – and another is an alternative history surrounding the Empress Theodora of Byzantium, a larger-than-life novel about the most powerful woman in the 6th century world at the time. That period of the Eastern Roman Empire did not lack excitement, to say the least… So, with a spouse he dotes upon and a pleasant prospect over which his front entrance looks to stimulate his thoughts, he's got a quiet and most enjoyable lifestyle. Would that everybody could enjoy the same, or more… Thought and ideas are welcome, courteously done. mailto:wbwemple@aol.com

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      The Competent Human Being - Wim Baren

      The Competent Human Being

      Effortlessly Using All Our Gifts To Become VirtuUs

      ♠

      WIM BAREN

      Copyright September 2020

      Westminster & York, Ltd.

      ISBN: 978 – 1 – 0051 – 6019 - 7

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the copyright owner. Nor can it be circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without similar condition including this condition being imposed on a subsequent purchaser.

      What Is VirtuUs?

      VirtuUs is:

      The beating heart of a Mission to draw out and bring to mind those wonderful virtues and qualities within everyone;

      A straight uplifting Path to improve our influence and leadership through those virtues and qualities;

      A beautiful Way of Faith and confidence to achieve our own deeper aspirations for personal success

      VirtuUs: Our Back Story:

      Once, long ago, there was a friend of mine from our childhood who was always looking to fulfill some kind of a dream or a fantasy, as I thought. We all know someone like this. They often are called dreamers or perfectionists.

      He was active, and competitive. His competitiveness was more to achieve some hidden personal standard, rather than triumph over others. His first love in this was swimming. He wanted to excel not just in speed but in gracefulness of efficient stroke mechanics, like an effortlessly precise

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