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?