Ryan Niemiec and Robert McGrath || Ignite Your Character Strengths
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Today it’s an honor to have Ryan Niemiec and Robert McGrath on the podcast. Ryan is an author or co-author of nine books, an award-winning psychologist, international keynoter, and education director of the VIA Institute on Character. Robert is Professor of Psychology at Farleigh Dickinson University, senior scientist at the VIA Institute, and has published extensively on the topic of character and virtue. Together, they are author of the new book, The Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality. Find our your character strengths at viacharacter.org.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- What is a positive personality?
- The measurement of character strengths
- Why are so many people interested in learning about their character strengths?
- How self-knowledge can impact people positively in their lives
- The difference between virtue and character
- The three main sources of a good character
- Is it possible to have a perfect character?
- Does the perfectly virtuous person exist?
- Is enlightenment actually possible?
- The developmental trajectory of character strengths
- Is the development of character strengths for everybody, including those experiencing adversity?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Psychology Podcast, where we give you insights into the mind, brain, behavior, and creativity. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, |
| 0:15.0 | and in each episode I have a conversation with a guest |
| 0:18.0 | who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, |
| 0:21.0 | others, and the world we live in. Hopefully we'll also |
| 0:24.4 | provide a glimpse into human possibility. Thanks for listening and enjoy the |
| 0:29.2 | podcast. |
| 0:37.5 | Today it's an honor to have Ryan Nemick and Robert McGrath on the podcast Ryan is an author a co-author of nine books in an award-winning |
| 0:41.8 | psychologist international keynoter and education director of of nine books, an award-winning psychologist, international |
| 0:43.1 | keynoter, an education director of the Via Institute on Character. |
| 0:47.1 | Robert is professor of psychology at Farley Dickinson University, |
| 0:50.4 | senior scientist at the Via Institute, and is published extensively in the topic of |
| 0:54.3 | character and virtue. Together they are author of the new book The Power of Character Strengths, |
| 0:58.8 | Appreciate and Ignite your positive personality. Thanks so much for chatting with me today. |
| 1:03.9 | Thanks, Scott. |
| 1:04.9 | It's an honor to be here. |
| 1:05.1 | Thanks, Scott. |
| 1:06.3 | I have a question, first of all, what is a positive personality? |
| 1:09.6 | How do I know if I have a positive personality? |
| 1:12.1 | Judged by who? |
| 1:14.0 | Well, I guess I would say that the idea of a positive personality has to do with, |
| 1:20.0 | are you someone who has really committed yourself to trying to work as well as you can |
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