How to Be Perfect
Purpose (life)
Become virtuous by practicing virtues
from How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
How to Apply This
- Identify the virtues that you’d like to attain.
What kind of a person you’d like to be? Which qualities do you admire in others, and which do you lack? - Come up with a list of actions to practice those virtues.
These actions can be both great and small. Be mindful of how doing a particular action makes you a more virtuous person. - Find your “golden mean.”
Determine which are the extreme ways of a specific virtue and avoid them.
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