What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.
Martin SeligmanThe clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.
Martin SeligmanTo be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.
Martin Seligman