Cultivating Character

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What is the purpose of life, and how do we achieve it?What does it mean to be a good person, and how do I become such a person?What makes for good leadership?How can I guarantee a more successful marriage and viable family?Cultivating Character: A Prescription for Happiness and Success addresses such pivotal questions using a clear, concise, and common-sense approach. It takes the weighty issues of morality and ethics from an academic, philosophical realm and brings them directly to the layperson and student.Cultivating Character offers a practical, step-by-step approach to becoming a person of conscience. It shows how, through education, we can learn the nature of the good, and through training, we can learn how to do the good. The goal is to reach an enduring heightened consciousness called loving the good for its own sake. This book offers clear explanations about the nature of good and evil, why good character is important, what good character looks like, and the central role that marriage and family play in developing the most refined level of emotional and moral intelligence.It provides a pathway to achieve personal transformation by developing and mastering habits of virtue and heart. These result in a personal paradigm shift in which we naturally and consistently use our knowledge, skills, and talents for the benefit of others.Special features include a collection of astute quotations from moral philosophers and others, and a study guide to assist in navigating through the content. In addition, the Character Mirror is a unique tool that gathers every known virtue and its counterpart in four comprehensive categories to help each reader visualize how to achieve personal transformation and better relationships.This book is a must-read for parents, educators, clergy, and business leaders, young and old. It is also for all inquiring minds who seek to become their true selves and gain lasting happiness and genuine success.Cultivating Character reveals how personal character is the bedrock of all human endeavor, without which everything else we do is nothing more than a ship on the high seas without sail or rudder.

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Pagina's: 314, Paperback, Baughman Education