How to Be Perfect

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Title: How to Be Perfect Authors: Michael Schur Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 7 Date: 2024-09-04 Last Highlighted: **

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The best thing about Aristotle’s “constant learning, constant trying, constant searching” is what results from it: a mature yet still pliable person, brimming with experiences both old and new, who doesn’t rely solely on familiar routines or dated information about how the world works.

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Aristotle’s flourishing, to me, is a sort of “runner’s high” for the totality of our existence—it’s a sense of completeness that flows through us when we are nailing every aspect of being human.

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Aristotle defines virtues as the things that “cause [their] possessors to be in a good state and to perform their functions well.”

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Aristotle says that thing is: happiness. That’s the telos,4 or goal, of being human.

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And the same way we develop any skill, Aristotle tells us, we become virtuous by doing virtuous things.

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Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

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