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_CONFIG ## Quotes on Character "Your character is your fate." ~ Steve Jobs "One thing that will make you great in your life, beyond money, beyond strength, beyond anything else, is your Character. Know who you are. Walk your path. Know your truths. Character! That is what will make you great in whatever you do in life. And remember that status in the world is not defined by what work you do, but how well you do it. It doesn't matter what you do. Whatever you do, you do it great and that will show your character to the people around you. Be givers in life. Don't wait for people to show you love. Give love first." ~ Hritik Roshan Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67KLdk_b3r8 "First make character — that is the highest duty you can perform." ~ Swami Vivekananda "Money does not pay, nor name; fame does not pay, nor learning. It is love that pays; it is character that cleaves its way through adamantine walls of difficulties." ~ Swami Vivekananda "We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one’s own feet." ~ Swami Vivekananda "You have to just concentrate on building your character, being the best version of yourself. In comparison to someone else it might still be less. As long as you're being the best version of yourself, you'll never reach there but as long as you're trying, that's your attempt every single day - to learn, to allow yourself to make mistakes. To learn from them, is something that I believe in. And that is something that guides me." ~ Hritik Roshan Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ghOhkFigiMI "Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education." ~ Martin Luther King Jr. “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. "The unexamined life is not worth living." ~ Socrates “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ~ Aristotle “My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" ~ Socrates “Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.” ~ Germany Kent “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. "Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." ~ Abraham Lincoln ## Importance of Measuring Character "Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda "All earnest students should keep a record, or at least a mental diary, of their changing tendencies, marking out their progress in the development of any good qualities which they may lack and which they are trying to cultivate." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda "Analyze your thoughts and see on what throne of consciousness your ego is seated; what kind of consciousness is predominant in your mind." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda "It is a good idea to keep a mental diary. Before you go to bed each night, sit for a short time and review the day. See what you are becoming. Do you like the trend of your life? If not, change it." ~ Paramahansa Yogananda “...For it is only when we profoundly understand our own true nature that we can experience the world and reality as it is, unfiltered. Free of the hooks that otherwise push and pull us in different directions. Until then, we are like puppets to the shadow world and our own social programming.” ~ Sita Bennett, She Who Rose From Ashes ## Important Personalities Discussed Here ### Angela Duckworth Professor at University of Pennsylvania Author of the very famous & best-selling book "GRIT" CEO of the Non-Profit Character Lab (now closed) Famous Speaker at TED She is known for her work in the area of Character Measurement and Development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Duckworth ### KIPP Schools KIPP is a chain of about 250 schools in the USA which are focused on children from low-income groups. They are known for their academic success. Over the years, they found that their children do well academically if the children, in addition to exceptional academic instruction, are also trained in improving certain character traits like perseverance, optimism, social intelligence, self-control, gratitude, etc. KIPP’s founders found that training these children in certain "performance character" traits helped children a great deal in their journey towards joining and finishing college. The school worked with Angela Duckworth to develop a character growth card. The Character Growth card used in this school is a collection of simple questions that help measure whether a child is doing well in inculcating a character trait. Teachers also rate the students on the same measurement scale. https://www.kipp.org ### Martin Seligman He is a strong promoter of "Positive Psychology" and is a professor at University of Pennsylvania. He was the PhD guide of Angela Duckworth. He authored a book "Learned Optimism" and other self-help books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman ### VIA Institute on Character The VIA Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS), formerly known as the Values in Action Inventory, is a proprietary psychological assessment measure designed to identify an individual's profile of "character strengths". It was created by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, researchers in the field of positive psychology, in order to operationalize their handbook Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Values_in_Action_Inventory_of_Strengths ### Paul Tough Paul Tough is a Canadian-American writer and broadcaster. He is best known for authoring the works "Whatever It Takes" and "How Children Succeed". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tough ### Carol Dweck Carol Susan Dweck is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck

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