Do you have compassion for yourself? What are you bad at that you are unable to make yourself good at? Do you feel disgust for yourself in those situations? Compassion begins with humility, which is something that you might want to work on
I generally do not feel disgust insofar as people are unable to make themselves good at something. If e.g. someone has an untreatable genetic disease, I certainly do not feel disappointment or disgust when empathizing with them.
But in practice that is an extremely rare case, despite everyone and their grandmother having some narrative about how they can’t possibly do anything about their shortcomings.
I would say that a part of compassion, and empathy, is to recognise that indeed those narratives are valid, or else there is some valid reason that people are as they are. Also, not everyone shares the moral value of optimising themselves or making themselves good at something. Disgust implies judgement that implies a lack of compassion.
Since you seem to be motivated at making yourself better, which I agree is a good motivation, why don’t you challenge yourself to increase your compassion and humility?
Do you have compassion for yourself? What are you bad at that you are unable to make yourself good at? Do you feel disgust for yourself in those situations? Compassion begins with humility, which is something that you might want to work on
I generally do not feel disgust insofar as people are unable to make themselves good at something. If e.g. someone has an untreatable genetic disease, I certainly do not feel disappointment or disgust when empathizing with them.
But in practice that is an extremely rare case, despite everyone and their grandmother having some narrative about how they can’t possibly do anything about their shortcomings.
I would say that a part of compassion, and empathy, is to recognise that indeed those narratives are valid, or else there is some valid reason that people are as they are. Also, not everyone shares the moral value of optimising themselves or making themselves good at something. Disgust implies judgement that implies a lack of compassion.
Since you seem to be motivated at making yourself better, which I agree is a good motivation, why don’t you challenge yourself to increase your compassion and humility?