I often feel I owe my success more to my “vices” than to my “virtues.”
What is a virtue? What is a vice?
- Impatience
- Anger
- Rebelliousness
- Restlessness
- Infatuation
- Daydreaming
- Desire
- Goofing Off
- Subversive Activity
- Laziness
- Quitting
- Boredom
- Fighting
- Delusions of Grandeur
Society — especially school, but the church is arguably worse — tells us these are crimes to be stamped out.
They’re half-right. I call them the vicious virtues. When misdirected, they can easily destroy both self and society.
But if you can master them — and through them master yourself — you can fix the world.
How do we create an alternative form of learning that embraces creative chaos and harnesses the vicious virtues, rather than fighting them?
Radically Happy 
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