Self-Improvement Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/self-improvement/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:50:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Self-Improvement Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/category/self-improvement/ 32 32 Habits for Moral Character https://mind-at-work.com/habits-for-moral-character/ Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:50:12 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6178 This essay is the sixth in the series "Good Habits." The discussion is based on my book of the same title. Many people today seem to think moral character is something we have or don't have, and nothing can be done to acquire it. That idea is mistaken. Many others believe that having moral character [...]

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]]> Habits for Creativity https://mind-at-work.com/habits-for-creativity/ Sat, 18 Jan 2025 15:18:41 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6138 Socrates This essay is the fourth in the series "Good Habits." The discussion is based on my book of the same title. Creativity is a mental process for producing ideas that are both uncommon and uncommonly good, ideas that solve problems and resolve issues. Studies show that 95 percent of us have significant [...]

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]]> Good Habits for Efficiency https://mind-at-work.com/good-habits-for-efficiency/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:22:18 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6124 This essay is the third in the series "Good Habits." The discussion is based on my book of the same title. The word "efficiency" frightens many people. Some see it as cold, regimented, and mechanical and think it makes life grim and joyless. Others believe it will diminish the quality of what they do. Both [...]

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]]> Good Habits for Individuality https://mind-at-work.com/good-habits-for-individuality/ Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:08:57 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6104 Rodin's The Thinker This essay is part 2 of "Living Wisely in a Foolish World." It's pleasant to regard ourselves as individuals from birth, having formed our own ideas, attitudes, perspectives, preferences, likes and dislikes, and so on, completely uninfluenced by others. Pleasant, but mistaken!  We were receiving influences by hearing and touch [...]

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]]> Living Wisely in a Foolish World https://mind-at-work.com/living-wisely-in-a-foolish-world/ Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:58:53 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=6098 Making sense of the present age is like playing whack-a-mole. Every time we smack down one foolish notion, another pops up, then another and another. To make matters worse, more and more people seem to be accepting the foolishness rather than smacking it. We are left wondering what we can possibly do to restore sanity [...]

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