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Re:Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotiona... by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:04AM (#32012932)
Our family is outside the norm in practicing millennia old religious traditions that include daily practice of gratitude and forgiveness. I have found it to be amazingly useful for passing down ‘emotional intelligence’ and existential maturity to the next generation (and also keeping everything in life in perspective).

This essay seems to suggest that the secular world lacks these practices for passing down EI, because many of the premises were foreign to my lived experience.

Re:Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotiona... by nic_wilson on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:11AM (#32012985)
If you don’t mind sharing, I’d be curious what specific traditions you practice?
Re:Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotiona... by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 07, 2022 @09:34PM (#32021978)
For example, nightly family prayer where everyone is given the opportunity to contemplate/share what they are grateful for that day. Also a time set aside to practice saying sorry/reconciliation. Contemplating the beatitudes, etc.

Amazingly fruitful practice that only takes 15 min or so. By the time the kids graduate from the home, they are quite mentally/emotionally prepared for the world from the practice :)