Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

How do we understand the strength of someone's character, whether they're toxic, whether they have high values, besides the, you know, the things that we can see of like, okay, they broke their word or their negative

or things like that, how do we really determine someone's character? First thing you have to do

to realize that determining people's character is the most important thing that you have to do

in judging them. So if we're looking, let's say we're looking for a business partner or a romantic partner

or a colleague to work with, we're going to base our decision on those kinds of appearances.

Like people can be very good at deceiving you with being very charming and flattering, or they

have a brilliant resume, and you'll be seduced by that.

And what you want to do, the first step in that law is to say, no, that's not how I'm going to judge people.

My main value is their character and the strength of their character.

And character is something from deep, deep, deep within.

The word character comes from the Greek chiroz, which means to carve.

And character is something really deeply carved inside the person.

It's who they are at their core.

It creates patterns and behavior that they can't even really control.

It's who they are genetically.

It's who they are from the early values of their parents.

So you want to connect to that.

You want to see that.

It's not immediately visible to you because people will disguise their character. You want to see that and you want to connect to that, you want to see that. It's not immediately visible to you because people

will disguise their character. You want to see that and you want to value it more than anything

else. And what you want are people with strong character. And what that means is they have

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