First, thanks for responding to my post with your own post, glad my ideas were inspiring and also deserved this sort of enrichment and expansion. Glad you created a separate post, as opposed to simply responding to mine, as the topic deserves its own treatment.
So my response is that I fully agree that it’s really beneficial to orient toward getting warm fuzzies from discovering one’s own mistakes. That’s why in my post I suggested replacing the rationality virtue of Perfectionism with Improvement. Orienting toward improvement, for me and for others, has proven very useful for feeling positive about discovering flaws and updating beliefs. Instead of seeing flaws simply as bad things, I see them as opportunities for improvement. This positive framing is really helpful for feeling good about looking for “opportunities for improvement” instead of flaws, and thus getting the positive reinforcement working to help improve.
First, thanks for responding to my post with your own post, glad my ideas were inspiring and also deserved this sort of enrichment and expansion. Glad you created a separate post, as opposed to simply responding to mine, as the topic deserves its own treatment.
So my response is that I fully agree that it’s really beneficial to orient toward getting warm fuzzies from discovering one’s own mistakes. That’s why in my post I suggested replacing the rationality virtue of Perfectionism with Improvement. Orienting toward improvement, for me and for others, has proven very useful for feeling positive about discovering flaws and updating beliefs. Instead of seeing flaws simply as bad things, I see them as opportunities for improvement. This positive framing is really helpful for feeling good about looking for “opportunities for improvement” instead of flaws, and thus getting the positive reinforcement working to help improve.