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04 Nov 2018
In an invited commentary, SMU Behavioural Sciences Institute Director Professor David Chan explained how virtue can become vice when we are excessively high on a positive attribute like confidence, conscientiousness and courage, or a positive attitude towards others like trusting someone. He explained that instead of moderation, the way to prevent our strengths from becoming self-defeating weaknesses is to self-reflect and take constructive steps to do something.