Brian Johnson explores Stephen Covey's idea that humility is the mother of all virtues and courage is the father. Humility means seeing the gap between who you want to be and who you are. Courage, from the word for heart, gives other virtues the power to actually work.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on virtues Meet your parents. It's inspired by primary greatness by Stephen Covey. Virtues. Who are your parents? Well, Stephen Covey tells us you have a mom and you have a dad. Virtue. Can you guess what they are?
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Humility is the mother of all virtues. And courage. Stephen Covey tells us is the father of all virtues. Humility. What is that? Humility is the willingness to say, look, I'm capable of this. I'm actually being that. I'm humble enough to see that there's a gap between me having total integrity and.
And where I'm at now.
The opposite of humility is what is pride. David Brooks in Path to Character says, pride is the number one vice. Humility is the number one virtue in cultivating our character. Where are you falling short? Make a list. No one's perfect. You're not going to be the first and then have the courage to. To actually do something about it, to be this rather than to seem to be that.
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Essay quam videre from the last micro class. Humility plus courage. A willingness to look at where we're falling short and a courage to actually do the things we need to do in order to optimize and actualize. Remember, the word courage comes from the Latin and French words for heart. So just as your heart pumps blood to your arms and legs and other organs, so too does courage vitalize all the other virtues. There you go. Virtues you have met your parents, hope you enjoyed. Where can you do some work? What's the number one thing you know you could work on? Have the humility to see it and the courage to go rock it and.
Have another awesome day.
See ya.
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