How To Change Your Innate Characteristics | What Virtues Will You Seek Out?

Oct 28 2022 • 1hr 4m

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How are you developing your character to become a better person?In Episode #342 of 'Musings' Juan and I discuss: the new change to releasing episodes at 7pm AEST, how leadership is important for a companies character, the difficulty of changing innate personality traits, the good characteristics we look for in people, an assessment of our own qualities and whether outside people will put us in positive/negative buckets.A huge thanks to Dave Jones and Hrinaus for supporting the show with their last bit of bread and soup, I (and Juan) really really do appreciate it!As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Housekeeping to start off with(2:30) - Why this topic?(3:15) - Definition(4:12) - Institutional Character: Optus vs Medibank(9:40) - Reputation lags character(12:04) - Why everyone thinks they are good(14:22) - Can you change your character?(23:45) - Chat comments(24:29) - Boostagram Lounge(27:25) - Long term games with long term people(33:56) - Hard work, concentration, humility, transparency(38:23) - Juan's good and bad characteristics(44:41) - My good and bad characteristics(50:21) - Do we have strong or weak character(58:37) - Final chat comments(59:54) - Value for valueIntro Music by 'Signs Of New Growth':https://podcastindex.social/@SignsOfNewGrowthConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Discord: https://discord.gg/jjfq9eGReUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

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@petar

7,777 sats

Oct 29 2022

Juan touched on a key point on character. I believe people may develop what is referred to as character by enduring a hardship and then learning from it. In my experince people don't fundementally change who they are because they *want* to, they change because they *have* to.