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CV NEWS FEED // Virtues are “superhabits” that can be built up through regular practice, an author and professor at The Catholic University of America will explain in a talk this week about his new book, Superhabits: The Universal System for a Successful Life.
Andrew Abela is a professor of marketing at the Washington, D.C.-based Catholic university and the founding dean of its Busch School of Business, according to the Catholic Information Center (CIC), which is hosting his book launch. The event will take place at 6 p.m. Eastern Time on October 24 and can be attended either virtually or in person. Registration, which can be done here, is required for in-person attendance.
The CIC’s webpage on the event states that Abela’s book looks at how virtues must be built up not through “herculean efforts” but through “steady daily practice, which is accessible to all.”
In the talk, Abela will explore how once an action becomes a habit, it is easier to do. Building a habit of virtue brings sustained joy and will benefit one’s physical, emotional, and mental health.
A Sophia Institute Press video preview for “Superhabits” explains that the book’s insights draw on modern positive psychology and on “thinkers” like St. Thomas Aquinas, who is known especially for his extensive writings on theology.
The CIC webpage notes that in the book, Abela shows how St. Thomas Aquinas’ “genius… codified the super habits into a veritable human operating system, one that’s more relevant today than ever.”
