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Developing “Character”

By Mind Tools Content Team

In this article, we examine what character is and look at what you can do to develop it. We’ll also examine how you can defend your character by standing your ground.

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Brené Brown: Attend to Fears and Feelings

The bestselling author has a message for managers and leaders: You must seek out the feelings that lie behind people’s bad behavior.

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Brené Brown
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Feeling angry signals a problem, venting anger does not solve it. Venting anger may serve to maintain, and even rigidify, the old rules and patterns in a relationship, thus ensuring that change does not occur.

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Harriet Lerner
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Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Love and Anger in the Time of Corona | Dr. Rick Hanson

In this talk from Dr. Rick Hanson for his Wednesday Night Meditation Talk series, he covers love and anger in the time of Corona. During the Coronavirus pandemic, many are experiencing a wide range of feelings, and Dr. Hanson offers some perspective to help you handle this challenging time.

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Rick Hanson
2020
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Anger and Good Boundaries

Your healthy anger should arise when your sense of self and your idea of how things should be (your boundaries) are challenged or broken. What you do next, and how you re-set your boundaries, determines the outcome for you and for your relationships. Healthy anger can change your life!

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Karla McLaren
2016
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The Universe Always Has a Plan: The 10 Golden Rules of Letting Go

Do you feel an insatiable drive to fulfill a mission greater than yourself? To be reacquainted with a long-lost desire to follow the excitement of passion, inspiration, and playfulness? Have you reached a turning point in your reality? In this powerful work, spiritual teacher and intuitive Matt...

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Matt Kahn
2020
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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

This groundbreaking book, from one of the global innovators in the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Daniel Goleman (foreword)
2010
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Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions

Emotions link our feelings, thoughts, and conditioning at multiple levels, but they may remain a largely untapped source of strength, freedom, and connection.

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Robert Augustus Masters
2013
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Building Character