True character of a person is completely hard to
identify. Why? It is because the flexibility of a person and their easily
adaptation to the environment they are living in with their wisely knowledge to
fit the given situation. There is no effective detection tool, in history. For
most, we will never be able to clearly scan such a person whether good or bad,
easygoing or serious, or discipline-less or well organized etc. What to do then
in order to know people clearly?
Throughout research, they found that it is right that
one can define a person when an evil or virtuous one, however, one can obtain
higher proportion of information about that person through several criteria
below:
Look at their associates; who this person is
associating with. What they often do? Check out his or her friends instead of
him or her allows us to easily notice the behaviours of those people. The reason
simply because they are not going to pretend doing something good or bad in
front of us. They will some from their natural performance. They will not hide
it. If they were good, then they will something good natural and vice versa.
This is one effective way.
a). Speech and Action: Normally, we tend to know what
is good or bad through speech or action. If you want to know a person clearly.
Perhaps the second recommended step is to investigate or search for pattern of
speech and action they have. As people who used to stay around with them might
help as well. This second tip is proved weak and inconvenient comparing to the
first one. Let’s move to the third and fourth techniques, which are conceived
to be the best tips ever shared by famous scholars and leaders around the
world.
b). Habits: We all now know that we are the production
of our habits of thought, action, and speech by early article in this blog. So,
to keep it short to detect a person whether good or bad, friendly or the
opposite, it is recommended to focus on habits of person. For sure, whatever a
person is pretending to do it will not last long. They will one day reveal it
automatically since it’s their true self. As such, it is very effective to have
critical look on habits of thought, action and speech of a person so often they
one will be able to know who should be associated and not. As mentioned in our
previous article, we are what we think about most of the time. What we think we
become. – Lord Buddha.
c). Character, last but not least, is the central key
to a person. Knowing character of a person means knows everything about them
from bottom to the head, from left to right and eyes to toes. But how we get to
know if character of a person is this or that? By two possible ways:
- Abraham Lincoln suggests an impressive and truthful
way to make a strong and sufficient detection. For Abraham Lincoln, as have
seen in the picture above, to test a man’s character by giving him or her
power. As it happens very often at your backyard, some people is supposed to be
humble, calm and very basic once she or he is positioning in a lower status.
They tend to friendly and communicable to kinds of people; they tend to say
thanks, apologize for some errors and appreciate for one’s achievement and
result. However, once their position or status moves up they are completely
different. They tend to less-friendly, incommunicable, and ambitious etc. From
this ground Abraham Lincoln advises that it is easily to test a person whether
good or bad by giving them power. As one can see, if power is given and that
person changes little or nothing then he is a good person but if very rapidly
change then one knows for sure who those persons are.
- The second possible to detect a person character is
by reviewing the whole process of character. When it becomes a character? Who
creates and influences this character? From SEAN COVEY, the whole process is
like this:
Thought
becomes words; words become actions;
Actions
become habits when repeatedly do;
Habits
become CHARACTER when repeatedly perform.
Therefore, to
test person’s character we got to learn their mind, their speech, their actions
and their habits. It seems a bit long and complicated but prove very effective.