Chapter 3
Cultivating Top-Notch Character Traits
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding what character is
Working to improve your character
Looking at positive and negative character traits
Making character count
Attitude is who you are. Character is what you are.
Attitude and character are the foundation of the ten soft skills essential to career and life success. Attitude is who you show the world. Character is what you show the world. Together, they create the whole you — all you can be and all you can do!
Just like your attitude (which we discuss in Chapter 2), the character you choose to exhibit is 100 percent up to you. You can have positive and negative character traits, just as you can have positive and negative aspects of your attitude. That’s why these two 21st-century soft skills go hand-in-hand in the workplace and in life (and in this book).
In this chapter, I emphasize the importance of understanding what constitutes good character and explain how to cultivate positive character traits on your journey up the ladder of career and life success.
Defining Character
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