Good Character | Career Angles

“The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.”

~Oxford Languages

“the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.

one such feature or trait; characteristic.

moral or ethical quality:”

~Dictionary.com

I worked in offices where the owner of the firm conducted himself in a way that in retrospect he was not proud of.

I was oblivious to the signals of his affair and how his girlfriend was always advantaged in every decision. I didn’t notice the obvious because I was so focused on what was directly in front of me. It wasn’t until I received a phone call from an old friend who is a reporter asking me about details prior to her wire service running a story that I put everything together for the first time. That’s how oblivious I was.

It’s interesting to me that we look at the definition of character, there’s a little bit of a disconnect between how we tend to think about it and what the real definition is.

In both definitions, the term is defined as being the sum of the qualities distinctive to a person.

What we tend to think of what we mean by the word, “character,” we tend to think of the moral and ethical…