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  1. Jun 17, 2019 · Vice sows compulsion, and virtue sows freedom. If the degree of freedom to choose the good is great, it needs less effort to choose the good. If it is small, it takes a great effort, help from ...

    • Excellence—Or Paralyzing Perfectionism?
    • Fairness to Everyone Isn't Fair to Anyone
    • Purpose: Passion Without Obsession
    • The Cost of Being Agreeable
    • Collaboration, with Clarity
    • The Myth of A Balanced Life

    Striving for excellence has its payoffs—good marks, approval, awards, a sense of a job well done. But pursuing excellence across the board reflects rigidity and can lead to perfectionism, an inflexible devotion to high standards, and an inability to set priorities. Psychologist Simon Sherry and colleagues at Canada's Dalhousie University decided to...

    Who doesn't desire a fair shot, an equal opportunity, and equitable treatment? We are scorekeepers by instinct. So deep is the need for fairness that when we feel we've been treated unfairly, primitive instincts can compel us to bring others down to the same level. Breeden remembers telling his daughter he was going to miss her birthday due to a ra...

    Passionate people are mesmerizing. They embody purpose and meaning in life and work, and often the two merge seamlessly into their life's work. "The more elusive the boundariesbetween your work and life, the more successful you probably are in both," reports Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, a professor of business psychology at University College London. H...

    Agreeable people, in the nomenclature of personality psychology, are softhearted, trusting, and helpful. They tend to be modest and altruistic, willing to compromise, generous in spirit. Happiness and optimismcome easily to them, even when circumstances are rough. They don't make waves very often. And therein lies the problem. There are times when ...

    Some people are natural collaborators. They welcome input from others and aim for consensus on decisions large and small. It's an empowering quality in a supervisor, and on the whole, it increases diversity, fosters relationships, and creates "buy in" and engagement from all parties. Buzzwords like "breaking down silos," "synergy," and "cross-polli...

    Whether you're talking with business consultants, parents, or yoga instructors, no virtue seems to rank higher than balance these days; it's an ideal championed by the earliest philosophers and the most modern citizens. Creating balance among all the elements of life—work and home, self and others, self-discipline and enjoyment—seems to be the goal...

  2. The vice usually has an emotional, psychological and cognitive component and, normally, implies effects on a social, health, relational, work and even economic level. It should be said that there are very different types of vices, some that do not fall within what could be considered harmful vices.

  3. Vice sows compulsion, and virtue sows freedom. If the degree of freedom to choose the good is great, it needs less effort to choose the good. If it is small, it takes a great effort, help from ...

  4. Jun 12, 2017 · The Greek philosopher Aristotle described pride as the “ crown of the virtues ”. It’s after all an emotion we experience when we’ve achieved something great, or when someone close to us ...

  5. Abstract. This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the vices considered in this essay, namely, sloth, envy, avarice, pride, anger, lust, and gluttony. It argues that these so-called ‘deadly sins’ were correctly named and correctly classed together. Irrespective of their theological background, they are similar in structure in ...

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  7. Research in positive psychology has focused on either (1) positive emotions, (2) happiness or subjective well-being, or (3) character strengths or virtues. This chapter emphasizes viewing it more in terms of eudaimonic virtue (for self and other). Positive psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality are joined by studying virtue ...

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