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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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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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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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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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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