A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.
We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.
That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
We need to develop people rather than process them.
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.
In most instances, the driving force behind the action is the mood, the personality, the attitude of the character - or all three. Therefore, the mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.