2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Angela Duckworth's 2016 book — arguing that passion and perseverance (grit) predicts long-term success better than talent, and that grit can be cultivated — the central text in the character education movement.
German psychoanalyst who founded the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society and made key contributions to the theory of character — extending Freud's psychosexual theory to the anal and oral character types — and who analyzed Melanie Klein, Karen Horney, and Helene Deutsch.