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The Kevin Miller Podcast

Skill vs Character - Which Pays More?

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Nutrition, Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Medicine, Life Sciences, How To

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

#976: I asked our audience this question, “If you're having surgery, do you want the absolute best surgeon working on you, or the one with the best moral character? How about an accountant? Car mechanic? Professor?” The responses added up to saying, it depends. Of course everyone would like both, but we have an older culture who generally says character and a younger generation who wants to be given credit for skill alone and I wanted to flesh out where we really put our personal values when it comes down to what we pay for, and what our customers will pay for. The issue was acute when I posed it, as I had a son going into a serious surgery. Do I want the nice doc to work on him, or the absolute best regardless? What it comes down to is not deciding which we’ll choose to lead with in our business and life, character or skill, but how we position ourselves in the public eye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:11.9

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0:17.4

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0:23.6

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0:25.4

Well, how do you get it all?

0:27.7

Before the things money will buy and all the things that money won't buy?

0:31.9

Well, there's a little formula.

0:33.2

You start with the right attitude, you add specific skills and the golden rule philosophy

0:39.3

and then you put it on a character base and what you've got is an honest legitimate

0:45.6

shot at complete success.

0:47.6

Now, there's some people who say, well, characters not really that important.

0:53.2

Let me ask you a question.

0:55.2

Would you deliberately hire, you know, people talk about it with everything is relative.

1:00.3

Would you deliberately hire an accountant or a treasurer who admitted that he or she was

1:04.0

just relatively honest?

1:05.9

I bet you wouldn't.

1:07.9

I mean, some things are right, some things are wrong.

1:11.3

My wife and I would soon celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary and, you know, in all

1:16.0

of these years, not one time have I ever come home and she looked me and I and say, now

1:20.1

100 tell me the truth, were you relatively faithful to me while you were gone?

1:24.6

Now, there's some things that are right, some things are wrong and yes, character, really

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