I think one of the greatest benefits I had at the few Litvak yeshivot that I attended, was the learning of Musar. Even though I was raised the home of my parents who were in fact very upright and moral people, still, I needed a sort of intellectual basis for this. Maybe I ought to know simple moral principles by being raised in such an environment, but I needed the extra understanding that comes from Musar.
So what I recommend for myself and others is the learning of the basic texts of Musar which are the medieval books on ethics and also the books of the disciples of Rav Israel Salanter
