Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence
[caption id=“attachment_3656” align=“alignleft” width=“2048”] ’Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull. ~ Lord Byron[/caption] I’m sure that there are many instances in life where we’re surprised by what we find out about ourselves. At the very beginning of an online course that I took through Coursera, we were assigned to go to the VIA Institute online and do a survey to find out what our character strengths were. I’d never heard of the Institute before but was curious to find out what my character strengths might be. I thought that maybe I had a few! ...