1. Flat characters are one-dimensional - they have one-track minds - and you can expect them to keep saying and doing the same things over and over again.
2. They are utterly predictible - whatever the situation - and produce the same stereotyped response, though they try to cover it up by adopting lofty titles like professional, expert, specialist and what have you.
3. Then there is a category called "round" characters - they keep growing - and you cannot predict their response to situations as easily as in the case of flat characters, as they have the capacity to adjust to different types of people and situations by tolerating and handling ambiguity and uncertainty.
4. They keep growing and changing, have varied interests, and above all they manage to divide their time comfortably over numerous interests, by finding time, besides work, for their family, for rest and recreation, for introspection and sabbaticals, for discovering new facets of their personality and potential, for exercise and relaxation, for enjoying nature and art, and for doing good unto others.
5. Round characters live in the present because they know that change is inevitable, that now is the only moment in time which is their very own, and therefore cherish every present moment and live every minute as if it were their last, without being bugged by that thought.
6. Their positive frame of mind enables them to look for goodness in everything and everyone around them, and to foster the same positive attitude of achievement and success all around them through their involvement with life.
7. You can become "flat" if you are obssessed with an individual or a problem or fixated on an emotion or an idea, which is evident when you keep harping on your favourite point of view or argument or coming up with your favourite solution to all problems.
8. Workaholics are also one-track people, being obssessed with work all their life, to the exclusion of everything else, even start believing in the divine principle of their indispensability, neglect themselves and their families, and somewhere down the line the total fixation on one role takes over their lives.
9. When confronted, one-track persons like to brag that they are made that way, surrender all their initiative and originality to the rulebook where they feel comfortable, and then use it as an alibi to justify their refusal to change, as it helps them to avoid the pain of thinking, of choosing and taking responsibility for their actions.
10. It is important to see that far from being a position of strength, this is a position of weakness, as it reduces a person to a one-track mind, incapable of adjusting to the ambiguities and uncertainties of life, and making it difficult for them to take their own decisions.
11. It is possible to opt out of this one=track thinking by trying to be honest with oneself, as it will help them to realise that they have become victims of powerful conditioning, and this awareness will help them to opt out of the dependence on external rules and become a Master.
12. An ongoing process of introspection and initiative can help develop other faculties, other interests, innovation, hobbies, and a host of other creative options to help break the stranglehold that professional routine sometimes develops on our lives.
2. They are utterly predictible - whatever the situation - and produce the same stereotyped response, though they try to cover it up by adopting lofty titles like professional, expert, specialist and what have you.
3. Then there is a category called "round" characters - they keep growing - and you cannot predict their response to situations as easily as in the case of flat characters, as they have the capacity to adjust to different types of people and situations by tolerating and handling ambiguity and uncertainty.
4. They keep growing and changing, have varied interests, and above all they manage to divide their time comfortably over numerous interests, by finding time, besides work, for their family, for rest and recreation, for introspection and sabbaticals, for discovering new facets of their personality and potential, for exercise and relaxation, for enjoying nature and art, and for doing good unto others.
5. Round characters live in the present because they know that change is inevitable, that now is the only moment in time which is their very own, and therefore cherish every present moment and live every minute as if it were their last, without being bugged by that thought.
6. Their positive frame of mind enables them to look for goodness in everything and everyone around them, and to foster the same positive attitude of achievement and success all around them through their involvement with life.
7. You can become "flat" if you are obssessed with an individual or a problem or fixated on an emotion or an idea, which is evident when you keep harping on your favourite point of view or argument or coming up with your favourite solution to all problems.
8. Workaholics are also one-track people, being obssessed with work all their life, to the exclusion of everything else, even start believing in the divine principle of their indispensability, neglect themselves and their families, and somewhere down the line the total fixation on one role takes over their lives.
9. When confronted, one-track persons like to brag that they are made that way, surrender all their initiative and originality to the rulebook where they feel comfortable, and then use it as an alibi to justify their refusal to change, as it helps them to avoid the pain of thinking, of choosing and taking responsibility for their actions.
10. It is important to see that far from being a position of strength, this is a position of weakness, as it reduces a person to a one-track mind, incapable of adjusting to the ambiguities and uncertainties of life, and making it difficult for them to take their own decisions.
11. It is possible to opt out of this one=track thinking by trying to be honest with oneself, as it will help them to realise that they have become victims of powerful conditioning, and this awareness will help them to opt out of the dependence on external rules and become a Master.
12. An ongoing process of introspection and initiative can help develop other faculties, other interests, innovation, hobbies, and a host of other creative options to help break the stranglehold that professional routine sometimes develops on our lives.