Dr. George K. Simon authority on manipulative people says; I’ll be doing all I can to help “make character cool again.” I plan to not only talk about it but also to put as positive as possible a “spin” on the concept of character development so that it once again becomes both fashionable to focus on and encourage it and commonplace to recognize and reward it. I’m going to do that in as many of my written (including some new newspaper columns and Huffington Post contributions) and spoken professional enterprises (including some new “webinars” and additional YouTube videos) as possible. And I invite all of you who believe in and follow my work: parents, teachers, students, managers etc. to partner with me in this campaign. Let’s all resolve to reverse the damage done by so many years of relativism and entitlement and to strengthen the institutions capable of addressing our most pressing problem. Whether or not we choose to ignore or discount the fact, character always has and always will matter. It matters in every aspect of our lives, from our relationships, to our work endeavors, to our civic duties. So let’s do our best to make it “cool” to talk about, focus on, and especially promote character once again. Passing more laws and imposing more rules and regulations won’t fix out character problem (Disturbed characters don’t pay any attention to them anyway!), and doing so only burdens decent folks and impinges on our freedoms. Nor can we solve the problem by drugging our populace any more than it already is. The medicine our ailing society (as well as the all-to-many dysfunctional characters within it) really needs is a healthy dose of character. And that means that we have to focus like a laser beam on its importance, do our best to cultivate in ourselves, and routinely expect and insist upon it in others. When we hold ourselves and each another accountable again, make it “cool” to care and unattractive to self-serve and exploit, this age of narcissism will come to an end, and our future will be bright indeed. All readers of this blog know what a nightmare it can be to have to deal with or be in a relationship with a person of disturbed or disordered character. And perhaps there’s never been a time in our history where character (and the “twisted thinking” that typically accompanies character disturbance) has mattered as much (For a provocative illustration of this reality see: Radical Ideologies: Deadly Ways of Thinking). I AND MY SON GRIFFIN KNOW THIS VERY WELL DUE TO MY SIBLING INVADING OUR LIVES FORCING HIS HELL ON US SINCE MY FATHER DIED IN 1995... SICK PEOPLE WITH $$ DESTROYING LIFE FOR ALL. manipulative-people/new-years-resolution-lets-all-make-character-matter-again/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:15:02 +0000
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