The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 190 of 254

People typically lack character

‘situational factors are often better predictors of behaviour than personal factors … In very many situations it looks as though personality is less than robustly determinative of behaviour. To put things crudely, people typically lack character.’

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