How to Cultivate Positive Behaviors?

Modern society faces a significant challenge in cultivating positive behaviors and values that promote growth and flourishing. This challenge is particularly pronounced in Third World societies experiencing painful realities.

Achieving this noble goal requires collective efforts across all elements of society, including formal, familial, and civil institutions, as well as educational institutions of all types. In this article, we will explore the need for a method to make positive behavior a logical habit for every child and young adult and the ways in which we can cultivate these habits through continuous collective work programs and shared activities that promote these values and principles in daily behavior.

Cultivating Positive Behaviors: A Collective Responsibility for a Better Society

In his book "Shortcut for a Better Life", the writer Ziad Rayess mentions: Modern society is in dire need of cultivated positive behaviors, which are the result of principles and good values. Cultivating these behaviors is also the main factor in the progress and flourishing of society. In my opinion, this is the biggest challenge to Third World societies, especially societies that are suffering from painful realities.

But achieving this is a collective responsibility. We must exert huge efforts in all elements and activities, in formal, familial, and civil society, in educational institutions of all types, in order to achieve this noble goal.

I want to focus on the necessity of finding a tool to make positive behavior a logical habit for every child and young adult. Some major ways to cultivate these habits are by initiating continuous collective work programs and collective life designed to spread these values and principles in daily behavior.

For example, holding educational and recreational camps where the management has the visions and strategies to spread altruism and optimism. These camps will educate the children in determination, diligence, and persistence and cultivate patience and tolerance of others. They will inculcate the values of thanking others, honesty, trustworthiness, and loyalty, working together, and understanding others.

There are other values that will become habit to the participants. The values will show both in their behavior and through the way they link those morals, indirectly, to sacred religious teachings that the child knows despite their innocent shortcomings.

It’s best that they learn through experience and not rote memorization. What’s most important here is for these values to take root and become applied behavior. They should be an automatic, unconscious reaction. The child will have a deep feeling of these morals later on, once they link them with religious guidance.

When we look at advanced societies, we see that they have something in common that began to appear in recent centuries: the de-emphasis and reduction of traditional, rote instruction in schools. Instead, group participation in various activities outside of the classroom is emphasized. These diverse activities have elements of science, exploration, research, and sociology, all under careful monitoring by education staff.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, cultivating positive behaviors and values is crucial for the progress and flourishing of modern society. It is a collective responsibility that requires significant effort and investment across all elements of society. Initiating continuous collective work programs and collective life, holding educational and recreational camps, and emphasizing group participation in various activities outside of the classroom can all help cultivate positive habits and values in children and young adults. By making them an automatic, unconscious reaction and linking them with religious guidance, we can ensure that these values take root and become applied behavior, leading to a brighter future for us all.