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One simple answer is Humility:

Be aware of your true capabilities and limitations.

>>700881

Tbf Jesus having an octopus pet from Mars is more benign than the cheery pastor down the road telling you to chop your kid's dick off. I think the leftist mainstream is more harmfully delusional than any schizo posting online.

>>700881

As >>700884 answered, humility. Acknowledge the truth of who you are, how low you are, and how if not for the uncountable graces of God, you would be more degenerate than the most evil people ever. Acknowledge that others if they had the free graces you've been given, would be better than you in your own position, etc. Mind this constantly. True humility will come.

>>700881

You're basically affirming the importance of the virtue of prudence:

>It is defined as the intellectual virtue which rightly directs particular human acts, through rectitude of the appetite, toward a good end. Emotional well-being, we will argue, comes about through a certain structuring of the entire network of human emotions, one that results from a proper disposing of the emotions by the virtues. If we are correct, then prudence is the mother of emotional health. And if virtue is the secret to looking beautiful, then prudence is, in many ways, the mother of beautiful character. For it is prudence that determines the mean of reason in all human actions and situations.

https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/education/catholic-contributions/the-virtue-of-prudence.html

>>700942

>Secondary Precepts

>2. Memory: If prudence were merely the knowledge of universal moral principles, we could stop here. But it is much more than that. Prudence requires a sensitivity and attunement to the here and now of the real world of real people. It requires a great deal of experience. That is why Aquinas lists memory as in integral part of the virtue of prudence, for experience is the result of many memories.

>There is more to memory than the simple recall of facts. Memory is more an ability to learn from experience. And so it involves an openness to reality, a willingness to allow oneself to be measured by what is real. This quality of openness is not as widespread as we might tend to believe at first. Some people just dont seem to learn from experience, that is, they dont seem to remember how this or that person reacted to their particular way of relating to them, for they continue to make the same mistakes in their way of relating to others. It is as if they have no memory of last week, or last month, or last year. They lack a true to being memory because they do not will to conform to what is real, but have made a stubborn decision to have reality conform to the way they want the world to be. That is why the study of history is so important for the development of political prudence; for how often have we heard the old adage that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat its mistakes?

>>700946

>3. Docility: Those who lack memory will more than likely lack docility, another integral part of prudence. St. Thomas writes:

>prudence is concerned with particular matters of action, and since such matters are of infinite variety, no one man can consider them all sufficiently; nor can this be done quickly, for it requires length of time. Hence in matters of prudence man stands in very great need of being taught by others, especially by old folk who have acquired a sane understanding of the ends in practical matters. (ST. II-II. 49, 3)

>Docility is open-mindedness, and so it requires a recognition of ones own limitations and ready acceptance of those limits. Proud people who hope excessively in their own excellence will tend to make imprudent decisions because they fail to rely on others by virtue of their inordinate and unrealistic self-estimation. A person with false docility seeks the advice of others, but only those deemed most likely to be in agreement with him, or of those of similar depravity and who are thus unlikely to challenge the overall orientation of his life.