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• Defined as moral and mental qualities; strengths and reputation.
• It’s a matter of self-worth, or esteem, of personal dignity.
• Also a matter of our willingness to help others, to have an abundance and not a scarcity mentality.
• It’s a quiet confidence, not braggadocio.
• It’s legitimate and earned, not bogus or borrowed.
• The lessons of the Ritz-Carlton.
• It’s also with whom we choose to spend our time.
• It’s refusing to cheat at golf but trying to cheat in football.
• There is the issue of cause and not blame.
• There is innate respect for others and not envy or acrimony.
• You give back the mistaken, excess change.
• Entire cultures can lack character.
• The ongoing struggle of politicians to remain in power undermines character.
• Yet this is an age of obfuscation, of mistrust, of deep fakes and phony news.
• Thinking peoples with opposing views are somehow morally inferior is reflective of poor character.
• Intolerance is an absence of character.
• “Character” is also about occupying a role, being performative.
• Are you real, or just playing a character in your own illusion of reality?
• Defined as moral and mental qualities; strengths and reputation.
• It’s a matter of self-worth, or esteem, of personal dignity.
• Also a matter of our willingness to help others, to have an abundance and not a scarcity mentality.
• It’s a quiet confidence, not braggadocio.
• It’s legitimate and earned, not bogus or borrowed.
• The lessons of the Ritz-Carlton.
• It’s also with whom we choose to spend our time.
• It’s refusing to cheat at golf but trying to cheat in football.
• There is the issue of cause and not blame.
• There is innate respect for others and not envy or acrimony.
• You give back the mistaken, excess change.
• Entire cultures can lack character.
• The ongoing struggle of politicians to remain in power undermines character.
• Yet this is an age of obfuscation, of mistrust, of deep fakes and phony news.
• Thinking peoples with opposing views are somehow morally inferior is reflective of poor character.
• Intolerance is an absence of character.
• “Character” is also about occupying a role, being performative.
• Are you real, or just playing a character in your own illusion of reality?
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