Sunday Firesides: Embracing the Coin of Character

When we think about our friends and significant others, we sometimes feel to say: “I love X about them, but wish they weren’t so Y.”

What we typically fail to appreciate, however, is that these qualities — that which we do like and that which we don’t — are not unrelated, opposing ends of a dichotomy, but rather parts of an inextricably connected pair.

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