There is no road or ready way to virtue.

— Sir Thomas Browne

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

There is no procedure that makes a person good, which is why the question keeps having to be answered fresh each time. Every situation differs enough that rules only get you partway, and the rest is judgement applied under conditions that never quite match the last set. Anyone offering a complete method is selling something. Character gets made case by case, usually in circumstances nobody would have chosen.

Rather than looking for a system, get better at the specific decisions in front of you. Afterwards, ask what you would do differently and remember the answer. That accumulation, slow and unsystematic, is the only road there is.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Where are you hoping to shortcut becoming a better person?

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