SHOW NOTES:

• 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?