Skills can be taught, the experience can be built but the character is something you are born with, it is a part of you, although over time character can be improved still the basics of someone's character will remain the same, one cannot change someone with an indifferent personality suddenly become a busy-body person though you can teach him to be more sympathetic, and understanding but only to a certain degree, one cannot change other people character completely.
When it came to Tao Bing Wen, Lory was curious as to what his real character was like, was he just a selfish - spoilt brat as he shows, or was he more than that, it turned out that Lory's curiosity was right. Even though it's not much, the boy still has dignity, what do you know, the boy was not completely hopeless after all.
