Overrated: rated or valued too highly
Virtue: Option 1a: conformity to a standard of right Option 1b: a particular moral excellence Option 2: a beneficial quality or power of a thing
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
When searching for a list of virtues online I started reading about some and found one that I know I have and wish I didn't, tenacity. Tenacity is the ability to stick it out and never give up, to keep going when things are tough and there is no end in sight.Last semester the Fall 2018 semester of my college career I made a decision to pile more things onto my plate than I ever thought possible and one of my teachers noticed and saw something that I hadn't. She pulled me to the side to talk to me, having seen herself in me, she pointedly told me that it is okay to say 'no' to things and not continue on, that sometimes it is okay to give up and move on to something else. That not always is it worth it to just stick it out until the end. When she pulled me aside she took a sheet of paper out, I was mildly confused as to what she was doing, then she wrote the word 'no' on it in red and told me how one of her former coworkers had told her the same thing she was telling me.
When I was earning my degree in accounting I had felt a sense of burn out, I didn't want to do it anymore. I didn't want to do anything anymore, I had started to hate what I once loved and it wasn't until recently that I realized the reason why I was experiencing that hatred towards accounting, it was the fact that I was experiencing burn out and was just tired overall, I didn't allow myself to take breaks. I had stuck with it not giving up towards the end and that was because I had a customer at the job I was currently working during that time ask me questions while I was scanning their items and finishing up their transaction, they inspired me to continue as they were telling me how much they valued people going into the profession that I was going for. I not only needed to finish, now I needed to continue on into a life that would lead me to work in business in general, to support those that didn't know how to do what I did. While in accounting I also had someone who inspired me to go into marketing, his passion for marketing inspired my own as I realized that it was more than just sales and that it was creative.Tenacity is a virtue that is needed, not to the point of burnout, to get through life. Saying 'no' is okay too though, understanding how your mind and body work is part of finding balance and living life to the fullest. Finding what you truly enjoy and sticking with that can allow you to find out more about yourself than throwing yourself into projects that drain your motivation. Stay true to yourself and become your definition of success.
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What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
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