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Watchfulness

August 19, 2019 by admin

“Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning”

– Balthasar Gracian

Definitions:

  • The quality or state of paying careful attention (CAM)
  • Carefully observant or attentive (MW)

Vices:

  • Excess: Anxiety, focusing unreasonably on the threat of danger
  • Deficit: Dullness, not paying attention to your surroundings

Example:

Paying attention to your surroundings instead of looking at your phone in public.
Related Virtues: Clarity, Presence, Imperturbability, Industry, Vigilance

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