Positive liberty

It’s safe to assume that most people strive to be happy in their life. Individual happiness can be defined in a number of ways, for many people wealth is the answer to becoming happy while others may view health as an important component to happiness. Seneca, a wealthy and notable philosopher during the Roman Imperial period, does not consider wealth nor health as essential to our own happiness. Instead, he regards virtue alone as being sufficient for happiness (Vogt 2016). Aristotle, on the…

!!!!!!!!FIND THIS QUOTE!!!!!! True courage is not failing to be scared, rather it is the strength to act despite it. Many people believe this mentality only applies in the face of physical danger or personal fear. Many people are, in fact, incorrect. Courage applies to every undertaking, be it facing your fears, standing up to a bully, auditioning for a performing arts role, or taking an advanced course in school. Algebra II has been my most challenging course so far. Due to an incompatible…

Personal Theory of Leadership Theory Admittedly, my personal theory of leadership is a work in progress. While I know and understand that at this point in my academic career I am already a leader, until recently I have been limited to informal, rather than formal, experiences. That said, I believe that I have procured skills that exemplify leadership and have set goals for acquiring those which I lack. My longstanding mindset puts others first, which I now comprehend as being congruent with…

Five Reasons Why Emotionally Intelligent People Are Happier? Is this is real, emotionally intelligent people are happier than other people? In recent years we have witnessed of further research about how EQ and IQ affect our business, marriage, and our personal life. In this article, Joan Moran discusses “Five Reasons Why Emotionally Intelligent People are Happier?” published in 2015 in the Huffington Post, and she begins building her fact with five reasons and decent sources and successfully…

What is Happiness? What is happiness? What makes people happy? These two questions seem so incredibly easy to answer in theory, but in reality they are virtually unsolvable. Television, media, and advertising campaigns all tell us to be happy, but how? Is happiness innate from birth or is it learned through the experiences we encounter in our lives. That is what Roko Belic set out to answer with his film Happy (2013). One afternoon a friend of Belic’s showed him a New York Times article ranking…

My three personal core values are happiness/enjoyment, personal development/ growth, and excellence. I put happiness as my number one core value because I believe that happiness is more important than schoolwork. In order to succeed in the classroom or anywhere else I think that a person should first be happy. If someone isn’t happy then they probably won’t care about their work because they’ll be too sad to focus. My next personal core value is personal development or growth. I think that…

SEP #4 In my observation of a Kindergarten class, there were many different teaching methods used. The teacher used many visual aids, and example would be when she asked the students to draw a pig. She displayed a pig on the board that was drawn by a guest speaker, and the students were asked to replicate the drawing. The teacher I observed also used games to enhance the student’s learning. The games were not meant to be competitive, but simply there to help the students with thing such as…

Many say that wealth creates happiness, yet even the richest people are discontent. Others say that philanthropy creates joy, yet even the most charitable people give, give, give and eventually have nothing for themselves. Neither are living “the good life” because they either care too much about the community while neglecting their own desires or care too much about themselves while neglecting society’s needs. Therefore, in order to fully experience “the good life”--a life of happiness with…

Case 1: The leadership style and behaviors that is used by this leader would be most effective is a Visionary style. According to Goleman, 2000, the Visionary style of leadership is most beneficial when clear direction is needed. It is the ‘follow me’ style of leadership. The leader in this case could have showed good leadership by organizing the exit strategy during the meeting fire alarm. This chosen leadership style or behavior will be most effective because it displays self-confidence. It…

I believe that kindness and compassion are like a domino sequence. Once a person does a nice thing to someone else, the next person will also try to do something nice, and a chain of good actions that will cross neighborhoods, cities maybe even travel around the globe. Since I was a kid nothing pleasures me more than helping others. I’ve always knew that I wanted to be a volunteer, just like my mom always knew she wanted to be a doctor (and now she is an amazing one). I made my definitive…