Virtues Related to Work: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Virtues Related to Work, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.

Practices that may help

1. Practice virtues as interconnected, not separate
   When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
   Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
2. 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
3. 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
4. Building character through deliberate repetition
   Choose one character quality you want to embody and perform one specific act of it daily until it no longer requires effort.
   Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue
5. The virtue audit
   Ask which of the four Stoic virtues you exercised — and which you neglected — today.
   The Stoic Daily Review
6. Name and wrestle with your besetting weakness
   Identify the one recurring moral failure and choose a practice that confronts it daily.
   The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character
7. The Eulogy Virtues: Building a Life of Character
   David Brooks distinguishes two sets of virtues: résumé virtues — the skills and achievements that get you hired — and eulogy virtues — the moral qualities like courage, honesty, and loyalty that people mention when you die. His argument is that modern culture relentlessly develops the first set while neglecting the second, and that deliberately cultivating character requires different work: self-examination, wrestling with weakness, and submission to commitments beyond self-interest.
8. 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
9. Apply three good things to work contexts specifically
   Use the exercise to rewire what you notice about your work day — contribution, competence, and collaboration.
   Three Good Things: The Evidence-Based Gratitude Practice
10. Cultivate virtue through deliberate habituation
    Do the virtuous action — even imperfectly, even without the feeling — until the disposition follows.
    Virtue Ethics, Made Practical

Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I keep trying to fix one trait→
• I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven→
• I’ve got a list of my strengths but it reads like a flat personality quiz→
• I keep wishing I were a more patient, more generous person, like it’s a trait I’m just missing→
• 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→

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