Video Lecture and Extra Credit: GV Envy

Here's the link to the video:

https://youtu.be/nD8RS00yTGY

Here's the link to the clip from the movie Amadeus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnOx4lmnbg


Here are some activities you can engage in to help (a) diagnose envy and (b) begin the process of removing envious attitudes and behaviors from your life.  If you do one or more of these and document it well, you can email it to me for extra credit:

Choose one of the following activities, do it, and write a 300-400-word reflection paper on It making sure that your reflection includes discussion of the vice

 (if you do an activity that shows up again for another vice, you must choose a different activity)

1.   Keep track for 72 hours of each time you notice that you are comparing yourself to others.  Note how this comparison affects your emotions/attitude (whether you feel better, worse, etc.).  Try to identify why you chose to make the comparison in the first place, and why it affected your emotions/attitude in the way that it did.

2.   For 72 hours, give two honest and meaningful compliments each day about things you wish you were as good as or better than that person for this thing... and mean them (or at least try to mean them).  (This is a way of getting over the constant drive to be better than others.)

3.   Attempt to discover someone in your life that you tend to compare yourself to.  Pray for this person at least 5 times a day for 72 hours, asking God to enhance them in the very thing to which you most often compare yourself. 

4.   For 72 hours, attempt to see everyone you encounter as first and foremost a person made in the image of God.  Try to avoid seeing them at first as a boy or girl or prof or black or white or tall or fat or skinny or hot or ugly or… Also, every time you notice yourself (in a mirror or in thought) attempt to think of yourself first as made in God’s image.