That gives me an opportunity to share some important things about character training. First, although we can learn about character traits from a study or a book, just learning about them does not give us or our children character. We wish it were that easy, but, alas, it is not. Character comes from training.
Character comes from forming habits.
Good character comes from forming good habits. Bad character comes from forming bad habits. Character is affected by doing things well, or doing them sloppily. Character is affected by finishing what we start, or seldom finishing anything. Our character is primarily influenced not by what we know, but by what we do.