Coaching practices for Daniel Dennett Intellectual Virtues
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven
- I’ve gotten so used to being the one who’s right that I’ve stopped really listening, and I can feel it closing me off
- I keep trying to fix one trait
- I keep waiting until I feel brave or patient or generous before I act that way, and the feeling never reliably shows up
- I’m staring at a choice where the smart, strategic move and the right thing to do point in different directions, and I keep trying to find the angle where doing good also wins
Practices that may help
- Embed your virtues in a practice community
The virtues needed for excellence in any serious practice (craft, sport, relationship) are real virtues — find the practice that calls them out.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Practice structured humility
Regularly seek evidence that you’re wrong, limited, or have more to learn — and sit with it.
The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character - Practice virtues as interconnected, not separate
When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Cultivate virtue through deliberate habituation
Do the virtuous action — even imperfectly, even without the feeling — until the disposition follows.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Know your two selves (Adam I and Adam II)
Distinguish the self that wants to build and achieve from the self that wants to be good.
The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character - Practice intellectual humility as a spiritual discipline
Hold your worldview lightly enough that new evidence can reach you.
The Perennial Philosophy, Made Practical - Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical - Act as if sages were watching — the practice of the philosophical community
Before any action, ask: would a person I genuinely respect — who embodies the values I aspire to — approve of this?
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises - Identify the virtues you most need to cultivate
Name the three character traits whose absence most limits you — those are your practice targets.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Practice intellectual humility: "I might be wrong"
Maintain a live list of beliefs you hold with high confidence but acknowledge could be wrong — and say so out loud.
The Socratic Method, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Finding The Mean Virtue
When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
Practice virtues as interconnected, not separate
- Awe And Virtue
When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
- Ethical Habits Practice
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide.
- Four Cardinal Virtues Daily
Ask which of the four Stoic virtues you exercised — and which you neglected — today.
The virtue audit
- How To Develop A Virtue
Do the virtuous action — even imperfectly, even without the feeling — until the disposition follows.
Cultivate virtue through deliberate habituation
- How To Practice Virtue Ethics
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide.
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