Character Develop

When you're thinking about what your story is going to be about, before you even write it, decide, like, what your character believes and what they will and won't do in life. Say, for example, that your lea character is somebody who's decided about his life. That's a philosophy of the lot of people come to in their life, right? And so if that's what you're starting with, then you say, well, how am i going to change that person? What are they been like at the end? How am they going to make that progression happen?