Contact Before Work

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Contact Before Work

• As you arrive
• Find your teammates (see whiteboard)
• Find a table for your team
• Get a cardinal virtues card

• Here are some ancient cardinal virtues which will
  help you in this class
• Wisdom Justice
• Courage Temperance
• Lego-osity
• Once youve found your teammates, a table and a
  cardinal virtues card, your goal is

Time to accomplish the above 2 minutes
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Assign virtues
Use this exercise to get to know your teammates

• Work together to assign the most appropriate
  virtue to one of your team members
• Wisdom
• Prudence, understanding, good judgment
• Justice
• Fairness, honesty, integrity
• Fortitude
• Courage, resilience, strength (inner/outer)
• Temperance
• Moderation, balance, self-control
• Lego-osity
• Excellence in designingand assembling Legos

So one teammate gets Wisdom, another gets
Justice, and so forth. Deal with too few or too
many teammates however you wish.

• When you are done, you should know, for each
  teammate, at least
• Her name
• Her virtue
• Why that virtue fits her

Time to accomplish this goal 6 minutes
3
Source of these virtues

• Ancient Greek philosophers, originally1
• To the Greeks, a virtue is "habitual excellence".
  It is something practiced at all times.
• See http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue .
• They were very advanced to have included
  Lego-osity, we think.

1And later adopted by some modern religions,
perhaps without footnoting their source.
Thanks to Salman Azhar for teaching us this
version of this exercise