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Your Character Determines Everything

Feb 2, 2024

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Explore the significance of character in shaping outcomes. Learn about the necessity of instilling and prioritizing good character in individuals' lives.

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Character is a crucial factor in determining a person's fate, and this applies to fathers as well.

Society's prioritization of superficial qualities in leaders, such as appearance and party affiliation, has led to numerous crises.

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The Importance of Character for Fathers

Character is a crucial factor in determining a person's fate, and this applies to fathers as well. In these challenging times, it's important to understand that who a person is determines what they will achieve. Society's prioritization of superficial qualities in leaders, such as appearance and party affiliation, has led to numerous crises. This also applies to individuals like Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and overpaid college coaches with questionable character. As fathers, it is our responsibility to value and teach good character to our children. While intelligence, ambition, and hard work are important traits, they are meaningless without a foundation of good character.

The Significance of Character in Determining Outcomes

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These are challenging, uncertain times, no question. What’s at the root of it? How did we get here? And what can fathers do about it?

The answer comes to us, as it often does, from an ancient prescription: Character is fate. Who a person is determines what will happen and what they can do. It should surprise no one that a culture that has put character at the absolute bottom of the list of requirements for its leaders—below whether they tell us what we want to hear, below how clever their tweets are, below how they look on television, below whether they’ll pass short-term measures that benefit us financially, below whether they belong to this party or that one—would find itself in crisis after crisis.

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