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Rule Breaker Investing

The Value of Character with Ed Brooks

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Does character always win? In business, investing, and life? What is character anyway? Can we measure it? Manage it? Improve it? These are just a few questions that we address with Dr. Edward Brooks, Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project, as we dive into the long-term benefits of being virtuous.

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Ed Brooks
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0

Does Character always win?

0:02.0

With past guest author Warren Berger,

0:04.8

who writes books about beautiful questions, we might ask,

0:07.8

is that a beautiful question?

0:10.0

Does Character always win?

0:12.7

Well, it's an ambitious question at least,

0:15.6

but what is character?

0:18.0

And assuming we can find an acceptable definition this week,

0:21.5

how can we find good character in ourselves and others? How might

0:25.1

we score that if we even should try? And how do we grow our own character toward

0:31.0

a better world for ourselves and others.

0:33.0

Well, we have a most worthy guest, a bea friche for our visit into the underworld and out

0:40.0

as we dig deeper toward understanding this week what good character is, how it can benefit

0:45.0

you as a human being, as a business owner, probably even as an investor to character, good or bad, runs all through investing, business, and life.

0:57.0

So let's talk about it. Let's learn.

1:00.0

Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing. It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

1:09.2

Before we start this week, I want to thank my daughter Kate Gardner who got to spend a few days a couple of years ago in and around Ed Brooks and his Oxford character project.

1:22.2

Kate came back to the US if fusively praising the manual meet today and his work.

1:27.2

So I want to thank Kate, who among her many virtues has a remarkably good eye, remarkably good discernment in finding people and ideas of value

1:36.2

and connecting with them and connecting others to them.

1:40.1

Thanks, Kate. Dr. Edward Brooks is executive director of the Oxford Character Project.

1:46.8

His research is currently focused on virtue ethics, hope, and character and Leadership Development.

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