AMDG. We all want to grow in virtue, but how do we get there? Dr. Ryan Hanning breaks down how to create a personalized approach to growing in virtue in his new co-authored book, The Willpower Advantage. Dr. Ryan explores what it means to be happy, how different temperaments interact with the virtues, and the universal appeal of virtue.

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A professor of historical philosophy and theology, Dr. Hanning has 25 years of experience in homeschooling and runs a homestead farm.

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Links mentioned & relevant: 

• Dr. Ryan Hanning’s website 

• The WillPower Advantage: Building Habits for Lasting Happiness by Tom Peterson & Ryan Hanning, Ph.D. 

• Mary College, a partnership between the University of Mary and Arizona State University 

• Fraternus 

• Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos 

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• 176 The Agenda Is to Grow and 254 Freedom from Anxiety with Art & Laraine Bennett 

• 123 A Change of the Ages with Msgr. James P. Shea 

• 240 Entry Points for Evangelization – Jimmy Mitchell’s Let Beauty Speak 

• 226 Cultivating Habits of Excellence with Dr. Andrew Abela 

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