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Understanding Attitudes, Part 2

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:06:10 +0000

Part 1 of this essay explained how identifying and evaluating other people’s attitudes can increase our appreciation of people with good attitudes and deal more effectively with those with bad attitudes. It also, more importantly, explained how identifying and evaluating our own attitudes can improve our relationships with others and make us better human beings. Part 1 then examined [...]

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Understanding Attitudes

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 17:47:08 +0000

An attitude is a way of feeling or thinking that has become habitual. People show their attitudes but seldom express them in words. In some cases, they are not even aware they have them. Lack of awareness occurs with bad habits more than with good habits, no doubt because the latter take effort to develop. [...]

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The Pharisee’s Confession

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:54:00 +0000

I know it couldn’t have happened, but imagine that the Pharisee in the famous Gospel parable had gone to confession. No doubt the exchange with his confessor would have gone something like this: Pharisee: Bless me, Father, for my wife, kids, parents, in-laws, fellow Pharisees and neighbors have sinned. I hope I didn’t leave anyone out. [...]

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The Role of Attitude in Learning

Vincent Ryan Ruggiero — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:48:18 +0000

The role of attitude is often ignored in discussions of educational achievement. One reason is that the usual definition of attitude—a “disposition” or “feeling”—is too vague to be helpful. A better definition is a belief expressed indirectly through tone of voice, mannerism, or behavior. Like other beliefs, attitudes can be reasonable or foolish. Unlike other [...]

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