It's heliotropic. So now, you know why after 60 years, some nuns are alive, and some are dead. But virtuous practices, compassion, kindness, forgiveness, gratitude, and so on.
That if we wanted to have more, we had to spend more. A virtuous circle of materialism that changed circumstances. Now do you remember the last time you called someone materialistic?
the Rapture and the "Left Behind" novels, and this idea that there will come a time when people who possess a specific virtue will disappear from the Earth, leaving only the virtuous behind. Only instead of people who have faithfully adhered to Bronze Age doctrine going away to heaven, this would be techies and nerds and skeptics and math people who would be comfortable with having their brains stuck in computers and being disassembled here on Earth and uploaded to a cloud.
Conversely if we can shift that initial attributional bias, that interpretive bias so that these ambiguous faces begin to be seen as more positive on average then of course we can establish a virtuous cycle whereby we start to see people more positively. Behave towards them more positively and we would hope they would behave back towards us more positively in return.
So they didn't like other people's ideas. It's this virtuous cycle, almost.
And also remember that all these changes is going to bring me something good. And it's a virtuous cycle.
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? What is-- is this virtuous ?
They are illuminated by the spotlights. and that becomes a virtuous cycle-- then you can really provide care.
And my brain is very geared towards thinking about relationships between things a lot. create this virtuous circle.
You want jump in here? We have a virtuous cycle. We go out and take sponsorship donations from large corporates like a Google.
And that's great, because that--that's the idea. It's a virtuous cycle. So when we inspire other people, we also get inspired.
It's not I either take care of my workers, or I take care of my customer, or I take care of my shareholder, or I take care of my supply chain. You can create a virtuous cycle, and there are so many employers who are doing that. And I spent a lot of time with them, and we spent a lot of time bringing together people who work to ensure that workers have a voice,
You guys looked like a commodity business, and I think in many of your areas you are a winner take all business because of this kind of virtuous cycle. It's very, very powerful and something I didn't appreciate 10 years ago.
But if you're going to watch something tonight, you're like, it's lowbrow stuff. I'm virtuous . I have all this great stuff.
it's kind of handy and it's pretty. And there's a virtuous circle the moment you start using it as a general equivalent, everybody needs it all the time, it turns into money. So barter's inconvenient, you get money, government gets involved and starts stamping the stuff, through uniform weights and quality, although it started cheating all the time and debasing
spelling is equal to virtuous Behavior Uh because it's just this sort of learned memorized thing and so those
Significant differences. And we can affect your test scores. I mean virtuousness actually has an impact. And here's why. There are interesting studies done of heart rhythms.
And yet we still view that as virtuous in our doctors in training.
We still view it as virtuous to be able to deny your own needs and be able to function without sleep.
of have to hope that they are virtuous , that they have, you know, the goals that we wanted them to have, the values that
internet without what I would call the virtuous cycle of search engines and
This is a classic example of a virtuous circle of information which becomes self-reinforcing.
Intellectually accepting the truth isn't virtuous in and of itself.
I think that there can be this virtuous cycle of people saying not only with their words and posters, but with their dollars, we don't want
And there's the beginnings of the virtuous cycle that might bring about a positive singularity of that kind.
And so you're in a virtuous circle there in which the platform doesn't change.
Now look, this is a gratitude journal. This is just putting yourself in a virtuous , or in this case, a gratitude condition, once a day. I can get a physical difference.
This is not something difficult. This is not losing weight, or giving up coffee, or training for a marathon, or something. This is put yourself in a virtuous condition. Another. I give you a mental acuity test.
But I have no time for that in my world. That permits the potential of a virtuous cycle to occur. We just had a milestone last year actually, a really, really cool milestone, where a woman from our very first class in 2000
And it can be a virtuous cycle.
Articulating our curiosity will lead us into virtuous connection in every interaction.
that kind of introspection that leads to virtuous interactions, connection, connecting with the type of people that we need to.
But I noticed another cycle a virtuous perpetuating cycle, which was the opposite of what was taking place in Boston.
When you create a manufacturing job, I own a Ford Escape, and it was built in Louisville, Kentucky. We've got to create a virtuous cycle, and the way we do that is through aggregating our collective wisdom,
And also doing what is virtuous in your perspective.
You get into a nice virtuous circle.
Kushala-- people always translate it as virtuous and non-virtuous , because they want to get into moralism.
that moat can build over time. And I missed the very powerful virtuous cycle at work with Google. A large user base translates into large advertiser base, better monetization, more R&D dollars, yielding a better product, which a better product is
And the whole thing is a virtuous circle.
new way of seeing other people in the world leads to a change in your behavior towards those people, and then a change in the behavior that's reciprocated back to you from those people so that you establish a virtuous cycle where you're basically engaging more positively in people in the world around you because of this change in the way in which you see the world and that then leads to improvements in mood downstream of that.
distinction there's vicious friction in our lives and there's virtuous friction so vicious friction is all the stupid
who cares? With the virtuous friction, there's real opportunity to surf the
promise of Google as creating this kind of like virtuous cycle for communities to to find each other and grow become something that feels like ickier and
And that really started to grow things and start that virtuous cycle.
But in the original Latin and Greek, virtuousness just means the best of the human condition. The highest aspirations we have for ourselves is a virtuous state. So when you're at your very best, at your peak, that's virtuousness.
In a frustrated, angry, upset, depressed condition, your heart rhythms are very unpredictable, go like this. In a positive, virtuous state, like for example, inducing gratitude, your heart rhythms go like this. You don't have to choose it.
I don't say that because I think that's virtuous .
I don't say that because I think that's virtuous .
schools More Money More stability it's a virtuous circle that gets created in
Wednesdays we began as a result this incredible virtuous where the readers got a little bit older