Dr. Russell W. Gough
Field of reference: Sociology, Psychology
Description: Making a Habit of Doing the Right Thing.
"1) Human societies, like individual human lives, ultimately depend and flourish not on a foundation of personality traits but on a foundation of habits of character. That’s why I stress that it is impossible to improve our individual lives or our society without making personal character a top priority.
2) “You actually have to practice having good character. I find it’s helpful to ask myself again and again, ‘am I doing the right thing?’ Not, ‘do I know what’s right and good,’ but ‘am I choosing to do the right thing?’ Every time we choose to do what’s right, we practice; we exercise our ethical muscles to the point where doing what’s right and good becomes a habit.”
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Aristotle
Field of reference: Psychology, Philosophy
Description: Aristotelian virtue theory
"1) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
2) Moral virtues come from habits. They are not in us neither by nature, nor in despite of nature, but we are furnished by nature with a capacity for receiving them, and we develop them through habit."
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Douglas Rushkoff
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: how the work-and-consume culture harmed our relationships.
“Most of us spend so much time working and consuming, that we have very little time and energy left to do anything that has to do with other people … and the more we behave as individual actors in competition with one another, the harder it is to encounter one another in a friendly way."
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Dr. Dan Ariely
Field of reference: Economics, Psychology
Description: Our identity has become entangled with our job.
“most of us understand the deep interconnection between identity and labor… ‘What do you do?’ has become as common a component of an introduction as the anachronistic ‘How do you do?’ once was—suggesting that our jobs are an integral part of our identity, not merely a way to make money…"
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Richard Heinberg
Field of reference: Economics
Description: Economic growth is over, we have to adopt new values
“We all got hooked on growth. Rising GDP numbers became our main measure of success. ‘More, bigger and faster’ meant ‘better.’”
“We’re all addicted to growth. We all want better jobs and higher returns on investments. But we live on a finite planet.
The end of growth is not the fault of any one politician or a political party, but some people benefited from growth more than others.”
“We can live without economic growth, but we’ll have to start doing a few things differently:
“We have to measure and aim for improvements in life that don’t require increasing our consumption of fossil fuels and other depleting resources, or piling on more debt.
“Freedom, being with the people we love, good health and the time to enjoy it, a secure happy community.”
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