if we routinely overindulge our cravings, we develop a vice.
selflessness
if we repeatedly allow others to serve themselves dinner before us, we develop a virtue
seflessness
"we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
The golden mean
when we're trying to work out what the virtuous thing to do in a particular situation is, look to what lies in the middle between two extreme forms of behaviour.
The golden mean
The mean will be the virtue, and the extremes at either end, vices.
act as though they are already virtuous
By imagining the kind of person we'd like to be and our aspirational identity and who we are at the moment.
eudaimonia
Ancient greek moral philosophy "happiness" or "flourishing" and occasionally as "well-being"
virtue
is a trait that contributes to or is a constinuent of eudaimonia and we ought to develop this.
