It's not that hard when your standards are low and purpotedly of your own choosing, as a self-made liberal.
While you are enjoying travelling, eating, new experiences, and literature that is poor in quality, what have you done to grow your character and exercise virtue in your relationships with others?
"History is boring."
What is the use of studying/reading history, when you have no connnection to the people whose acts are recorded? You migth find sufficient motivation to read the material for the sake of getting a good grade and material success, but does it hold any meaning for you?
The Confucians saw history as having moral value, being a form of didactic literature. But they didn't study the history of another people but of their own, desiring to emulate their own, the sages and great men of the past.
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