Personal Resources
Character
Advocates
Minnesota Character Council — “consists of volunteers from the private, public and nonprofit sectors who share a commitment to advocate for positive character and ethical leadership development. Synergy & Leadershipp Exchange provides administrative support for the council…. Character: A person's character consists of values and habits which shape behavior. A person of good character is trustworthy, responsible and concerned with the well-being of others. Good character consists of healthy self-awareness, positive self-management, insightful social awareness, and the ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.”
Articles/Essays/Op-eds
Scorn and the American Story, David Brooks.
“Humiliation lingers in the mind, the heart, the veins, the arteries forever,” Vivian Gornick writes in Harper’s Magazine. “It allows people to brood for decades on end, often deforming their inner lives.”
Loss of status can cause people to retreat to their tribal categories, dwell in the lost glories of the past, bloat with resentment toward rivals and lash out with horrific violence... A remarkable feature of America is that so many of the scorned who came here did not react in that way. They responded to humiliation with creative action [. . .]” (read more)