Coaching practices for Virtue Calibration Practice
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My real decisions take months to resolve and matter too much for me to score them honestly, so I never get clean reps
- I want to actually become a better person, not just vaguely intend to, but "be better" is so fuzzy I never know what I’m working on
- There’s one way I always overshoot
- I want to become a better person but "be better" is too vague to act on
- I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven
Practices that may help
- Build calibration reps with low-stakes trivia and almanac questions
Use factual trivia questions as a practice ground for calibration — outcomes resolve immediately and the stakes are zero.
Calibration Training - The virtue audit
Ask which of the four Stoic virtues you exercised — and which you neglected — today.
The Stoic Daily Review - Finding the virtuous mean in a specific situation
Identify the excess and deficiency extremes in a situation and practise hitting the mean — the appropriate response — deliberately.
Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue - 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 - 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 - Calibration Training
Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable. - Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
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. - Review the bullseye weekly to track real movement
Re-mark each domain every week and compare — small outward or inward shifts are your feedback loop.
Values Bullseye, Made Practical - Practice virtues as interconnected, not separate
When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Learning through exemplar study
Study the conduct of a person you consider exemplary and identify one specific behaviour you can emulate.
Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach
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
- 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.
- Virtue By Repetition
Choose one character quality you want to embody and perform one specific act of it daily until it no longer requires effort.
Building character through deliberate repetition
- Acting As Role Model Virtue
Select a specific person whose character in a specific domain you want to internalize, and study how they act — not just what they say.
Choose and study role models deliberately
- 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.
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