Sentences with phrase «about character strengths»

It is great to read about the character strengths that lie beneath the physical prowess.

The challenge was to teach these children about character strengths and produce an output for badge merits.

For more about character strengths, see Peterson, C. & Seligman, M. (2004).

By learning about character strengths and ways to build and apply them, coaches and athletes can be guided to acknowledge, own, and apply their own strengths, to value their authentic selves, and to increase both their collective and self - efficacy.

Kids should be meta about character strengths — when they recognize strengths in themselves and others, they can change a culture.

It's also good to see in the interview RBD's comment about character strengths as potentials which helps to shift our attention beyond the «Top 5» thinking.

The day she learned about character strengths was the day she realized for certain, that she was in the right place.

Not exact matches

There are folks who have posted to this wonderful story about a group of youth who are working towards the Aims of Scouting: Growth in moral strength and character, Participating citizenship, and Development in physical, mental, and emotional fitness.

This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.

Wenger as usual has his head in the sands and is too busy spouting his memorized usual garbage about mental strength and character of the team.instead of facing the reality that once again he has placed his trust and by large the clubs ambition in players who just aren't good enough....

Go behind there and all the strength of character in the world may not be enough and I worry about Xhaka and the mistakes he keeps making, especially as they often tend to lead to goals for the opposing team.

A few days ago I posted a comment on here and noted how AFC always seem to lose ground and our way once the heat is on... how we lack the mental strength and character to deal with pressure of maintaining a lead once we are top of the table and how we ALWAYS crumble when it matter most... i also noted how we ALWAYS seem to regain our mojo soon as we are out of contention for every important competition, when we go on some amazing winning streak, just in time to snatch the 4th place trophy... as is the norm on here and many other AFC fans forum i got member jumped down my throat, talking about negative fans, talking about new players we have and how that problem was a thing of the past....

In Helping Children Succeed, I write about a new generation of researchers — neuroscientists, psychologists, and economists — who are questioning the idea that character strengths should be thought of as skills at all.

And it happened without any explicit talk about noncognitive skills or character strengths.

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

«How to Succeed takes readers on a high - speed tour of experimental schools and new research, all peppered with anecdotes about disadvantaged youths overcoming the odds, and affluent students meeting enough resistance to develop character strengths.»

Children's books about perseverance and determination are character strengths that are needed for completing any task or for learning a new skill.

For the kids we've been talking about, the same persistence and character strength that get them through college are going to help them in whatever else they do.

ACA recently spoke with Tough about why character strengths are critical to success, the importance of connection, and what camps offer kids in the way of role models, community, and unique learning environments.

«It's the way that teachers talk about and model those character strengths that matters — and that goes for parents, too.»

what I love about you most is your passion, compassion, strength of character and kindness.

«In adolescence, these (character) strengths are mostly developed in relationships with caring adults,» Tough explained to me in an email about what ordinary citizens can do to help.

This information will help you to gain direction and understanding about how your child is «wired» from the inside - out and to guide them accordingly by knowing their needs, strengths and weaknesses; thus, understanding the character of your infant.

Former TV personality Billy Bush has opened up about the infamous video in which laughs along with Trump as he talks about grabbing women, saying he didn't have the «strength of character» to change the conversation.

They talked about how to thrive, both physically and mentally, by practicing mindfulness paired with expression of definitive character strengths.

In brief, Price concluded that the groups he studied maintained good health not simply because they were limited to a more primitive environment and lacked industrial foods, but because they had accumulated wisdom about how to select important nutrient - dense foods and possessed the strength of character necessary to procure those foods even when doing so proved difficult.

Though The Work leaves a lot unanswered about this unusual program (run by the Inside Circle Foundation), and the characters who participate in it, it's an often tense and exhilarating glimpse into a moment in time that lets men prioritize honesty and tears over superficial displays of strength.

Choice has been the great strength of every recent Telltale game, but it's especially powerful in a story about a beloved character that's been interpreted and explored in dozens of different ways over the past 75 years.

This association of the feminine with weakness or vulnerability may be objectionable in a cultural climate where criticasters monotonously beat the drum for the Strong Female Character, but Denis is an artist, not a sloganeer, and as such she has always been gifted with the only kind of strength that matters — the guts to speak hard home truths and not give a fuck about how they might be received.

A nice detail is the range of weapons from baseball bat to M16, each with their specs so that you think about which character ought to use which weapon to leverage his strengths.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

During this 1 - on - 1 phone interview with Collider, actor Giovanni Ribisi talked about the strengths of Season 1, expanding the world in Season 2, the respect he has for showrunner Graham Yost (Justified), not approaching his character from an inhumane place, the potential in playing someone who's always taking on different characters, and his experience with directing an episode.

The film is all about Ben Kalman, but one of the strengths of Michael Douglas» performance is that he isn't playing a character.

While Wick isn't an especially demanding character and the role plays to Reeves» strengths — another steely, controlled character — Reeves fits the part perfectly and he offers up enough to make you care about Wick besides his jaw - dropping ways of killing bad guys.

Thankfully, this is also one of the very few Marvel games produced by SEGA that actually shows a clear understanding about what makes the character great and it also does a great job of riffing on the strengths of the first film.

The result of the accident will have many viewers angry about the strength and depth of the Aimee character, as it did during the screening I attended.

It is about her inner strength, her battle with depression, and ultimately her moral character and sense of fairness.

Rather than remind me of the strengths of the series, these movies merely remind me that Michael Myers, the character, is the worst thing about the whole franchise.

This time, the story is about being the Super Star, and the only way to do so is by receiving these magical stamps pertaining to several character traits: courage, wit, strength, kindness, love, beauty and mischief.

The character has always had room for a joke or two, especially in Joss Whedon's Avengers movies, but it was primarily about putting his nobility and strength first and then letting Hemsworth's comic timing come about as an added bonus.

Yet, after acknowledging that it was an inspiration, the two films should be seen as separate entities, since much of what makes City on Fire work (character development, yin and yang cop - robber themes, and a romantic subplot) are not to be found with the 1992 American film, and what people liked about Reservoir Dogs (smart and savvy writing, sassy interplay among characters, and some brutally graphic violence) aren't really the strengths of the Hong Kong original.

The strength of those emotions took me quite by surprise by the close of The Iron Giant, when I realized just how much I grew to care about these characters and their fates.

What's refreshing about Frontera is that its characters are real people, all with strengths and weaknesses, where no one is completely pious nor completely evil.

Whether it's the warm emotional ties of a friendship, or the harsh dilemmas of everyday life, Brewer isn't afraid of exposing his character's flaws, nor is he modest about exploiting their strengths.

The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth of human suffering experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength of character that ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.

Actually, as I think about it, it's the character of Salieri that is really the strength of this movie.

Dark though the journey may be, «I Don't Feel At Home in This World Anymore» ultimately challenges its characters» nihilism, pointing toward a certain strength in togetherness to counter what can feel like overwhelming depression about the state of the world.

Teachers should also be better supported to collaborate and exchange information about students» difficulties, character and strengths with their colleagues, so that they can collectively find the best approach to make students feel part of the school community.

(Best for: anyone curious about how to develop character strengths.)

«How to Succeed takes readers on a high - speed tour of experimental schools and new research, all peppered with anecdotes about disadvantaged youths overcoming the odds, and affluent students meeting enough resistance to develop character strengths.»