Micro Class: Veritas

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Welcome back to another micro class.

This one's on Veritas. It's inspired by the Power of Ideals by William Damon and Ann Colby. Veritas is a Latin word for truth. In ancient Rome, they said that the goddess of truth, Veritas, was the mother of all virtue, truth. If you weren't willing to shine the light of truth, to shine the light of Veritas on yourself and on your life, there is no possible way you can live with ultimate virtue in this context. In the power of ideals, we're talking about moral exemplars and how we can live with a higher level of character and exemplary morality, right? And to do the right thing when it matters most. Well, truth is the number one virtue that we need to embody. And they use a phrase called inner truthfulness. They have six different aspects, qualities of truth that they talk about and we talk about in the note. The most important, the number one, is inner truthfulness. There's no possible way you're going to become that which you're destined to be. This is your highest potential, right? And this is what you're capable of in this moment. They call them micro occasions, right? If in this micro occasion today you were capable of this and you did this, and there's a gap and you fail to look at that gap and you rationalize it and you say, oh, whatever, you know these standards, I mean, everybody does this. Why do I need to do that? You're rationalizing. You're not having a high level of inner truthfulness if you don't have the willingness to say, you know what, I'm capable of this and I need to work on it. I'm going to be honest with myself. I'm going to have inner truthfulness. If you don't do that, you can never actually take the steps to become this. Our moral exemplars did that. They have a deep level of inner truthfulness. Other aspects of truthfulness include discernment. That's an aspect of being truthful. You need to actually be discerning. You need to slow down and look at your life and not only see what's working in your life, but what's working in culture, and say, well, what am I going to do? And then this was the second one. This is the first quality. And then you resolve to live in integrity with that truth. It's a really powerful equation. Inner truthfulness, what's working, what's not. Discern unplug from the Internet, plug into the Internet, and then resolve to live with More integrity. Veritas. Let's make it one of our most cherished values and virtues. And very practically, what's one thing you can shine some light of truth on? And then what's one thing you can.

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Always move from theory to practice.

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