according to you which are the institutions that have formative influence over a person's character
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The circumstances/ the environment one stays in, rules and ethics that one is taught from childhood. Their personal observations all these are what cause conditioned mind.
And when he sees conflict, like we say competition, becoming the best and then help, when one experiences that if one competes then they are rewarded by their parents, so their belief system is moulded by their experience that competition is rewarding etc.
A BIGGER ONE IS-
See instead of cultivating your character one should be true to one’s nature. Human nature is truly Lively by which I mean like life dynamic in short wonderful and lively. When you let external situations influence you you go far away from your true nature. Your character on the other hand should be the outcome of your internal situations. Understand you let your external situations dictate how you feel inside which shouldn't be the case . If you have a choice to go about life in a wonderful or a horrible way you will choice wonderfully right . So you should cultivate your inner situations become an institution or rather a temple from with so that you reverberate such a calming and wonderful energy such that you and people around you can be at ease and go about life easily.