"Limited man" is a concept that almost every self-respecting person dislikes. This is understandable, no one would like to consider themselves so. Yes, only those who see narrow-mindedness in others willingly publicize their meaningful opinion, which, however, does not deprive them of such an unflattering “status” themselves.
Limited person: definition
The limited personality is due to its inability, due to the defeat of the mind by egoism and ignorance, to adequately perceive new knowledge if it contradicts its beliefs, attitudes, and beliefs. Few people think about this, but the egoist is a person who has limited himself on absolutely all fronts.
Such a comprehensively limited personality is unlikely to make sense from read dissertations and scientific papers. This individual always remains at the margins of development.
The problem of a limited person
The essence of such a person is that, having accumulated some baggage of knowledge by a certain age, he ceases to absorb new knowledge from the outside. The brain of such a person is atrophied by his own ignorance and selfish approach to life. Say, I’ve seen a lot, I read a lot, but everyone around us carries heresy, and in general: why do you need these "Internet"? The misfortune of a limited person is large-scale, because, not wanting to change and listen to the opinions of others, such a person terrorizes others with his arrogant and arrogant behavior.
As a result, such a person causes open hostility in some, while others cause fun and pity. New knowledge cannot pave the way into the consciousness of a limited person, because they cannot get around the “Chinese wall” of his egoism.
Personality barrier
The catastrophe is that such a person literally feels a strong disgust in relation to someone else's worldview. We can observe such people at symposia, at open lectures, etc., it is they who frantically stroke their beards and resent loudly, if, for example, their precious opinion differs from that of the speaker. Here, write is already gone: swearing flows like a river, and if one egoist stumbles upon another egoist, the listeners are provided with a whole battle of opinions and “beard measuring”. What kind of science are we talking about, what common sense? Hey, here, in fact, a man was touched for “living”, insulting him with his “wrong and vulgar” looks. Here the miserable rushed: especially faithful slaves of egoism do not miss the opportunity with foam at the mouth to prove their unwavering and only true opinion. The mind blocked by egoism is not capable of further development and improvement. Not always a well-deserved academician surpasses a criminal or a drunkard who has embarked on the right path, because, having overcome his own obstacles, he decides to stop in a quiet haven of inaction after a series of victories and failures.
He slows down his own development, since his mind, preserved by the knowledge of past years, is unable to develop and progress more. And if a person does not grow above himself, then he is degrading. First of all, you need to jump over yourself, and not be equal to others. This is characterized by a great personality, and direct - by the fact that constantly makes small victories over itself. A limited person is deprived of such an understanding: he has enough of the achieved peaks and status, which could boast at every corner.
Learning is light and ignorance is darkness
In this world, we are all students. The opposite of a limited person is a person who is open to new knowledge, that is, a kind of platform for constantly absorbing new information. Awareness of this fact helps a person to avoid a quagmire of limitation.
In turn, an unlimited person will never say that he is smart and has learned enough, because the world is vast and there is no way to count knowledge in it. Life is a sculptor of our being, it skillfully sculpts a personality using materials such as experience and knowledge. Having made a revolution in his mind, a person can go forward, because nothing will keep him on the path to self-development.
"Cerberus" of consciousness
A false ego is a guardian on the path to development. Having saturated the feelings and minds of the personality, it does not allow changes in the life of a person that can in any way violate the apparent idyll of his existence. A person who has fallen into a quagmire of egoism and ignorance applies in all cases ossified knowledge that he received when he was not yet limited to them. Man’s limitations are not his education, status or age. Any old woman in the village can turn out to be an unlimited person because of her ability to listen and try to understand other people, as if “measuring their shirt on themselves”. And even if she confuses the ostrich with Strauss, her mind may turn out to be inquisitive and lively, ready to improve and adopt a new experience. Such a person will not neglect the information conveyed to him; he will listen attentively and try to understand what has been said, digest it in his head, and leave this grain of knowledge in his memory. As Yogi Bhajan said, we are all what we associate ourselves with, that is, setting ourselves up for communication with infinity, we turn ourselves into an infinite stream of information, and not a narrow line of knowledge.
Limitations
Speaking of limitations, people often confuse the concept of a limited person with the concept of a “physically limited person”. The latter implies the impossibility of someone to perform some actions inherent in an ordinary healthy person. However, such people can also fall into the clutches of the limitations of the mind. Stuck in their physical body and seeing their “inferiority”, they put pressure on the conscience of others, forcing the latter to worry about them and feel guilty about their healthy body.
Once in the trap of his thinking, such a person, in addition to being physically limited, also limits his consciousness. There are many examples in the world of how people with disabilities break free from comfort, find the strength of will to go forward and improve their lives. Such people, having overcome the barrier of their sacrificial consciousness, are worthy of true reverence, because they are a real example of how, using their internal resources, a person can perform great and incredible things.