self-direction
Example Sentences
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The coach of UCLA’s women’s gymnastics team built her extraordinarily successful career on encouraging self-direction and being 1% better each day at a form of expression that feeds your soul.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2018
They found that having a quiet ego was associated with self-transcendent values-- such as universalism and benevolence-- as well as self-direction and achievement.
From Scientific American • May 26, 2018
Much the same for Aristotle, who saw freedom in rational, intelligent self-direction.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2018
But it has been my experience as an educator and general smart-ish person that even smart people are not nearly as good at self-direction as they think they are.
From Slate • Mar. 1, 2016
Our isolation is gone, and with it our sense of security and self-direction.
From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.
