What Are the Character Traits that Ground Who You Are — Good and Bad?

A Personal Evolution Process (P.E.P.) to discover your dominant attitudes and behaviours.

Darren Stehle 🏳️‍🌈
7 min readDec 16, 2021

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A word cloud featuring variations on the word, “Personality”.
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What does it mean when you say, ‘That person has no character?’

Usually, it’s used either as a polite insult or a condemnation of someone who you probably can’t trust. When you can’t trust someone, it’s because you don’t know who they are, meaning, you don’t know what they value. They might act shifty, never embodying or demonstrating a consistent set of character traits which makes it difficult to discern what they stand for, or what’s important to them. Without character, we can’t relate to another person, for the simple reason that there’s no ‘level ground’ that’s common between the two of you.

Before we get started, in my recent article, “Human(e) Thought Leadership: How to Be the Change for the Common Good Through Self-Mastery,” I suggested doing a short exercise to list the top 10 characteristics you aspire to or…

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Darren Stehle 🏳️‍🌈

I coach leaders, changemakers, and social entrepreneurs to make a difference by ethically supporting a common humanity of dignity and equity. DarrenStehle.com