personal values
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personal values
"Weirdness is what sets us apart, gets us hired.”
“Be your unapologetically weird self. In fact, being weird may even find you the ultimate happiness"
Chris Sacca
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I don't play zero-sum games.
I noticed that whenever I was faced with a competitive, zero-sum game – a situation in which someone else had to lose in order for me to win, or vice versa I chose to opt out of that game completely.
- Tiago Forte on X
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“But risk aversion isn’t a strong enough value to live on.”
― Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden
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Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied again and again in similar situations to help you achieve your goals.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
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Values are ideas that guide us in action. In this, they are similar to plans, goals, fears, intentions, policies, etc, and the like. All these are ideas which guide us in action. Among these ideas, values alone concern the manner of our actions, rather than the consequences (as with plans, goals, and fears) or the mere fact of their performance (as... See more
Joe Edelman • Human Values
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Values — like policies, plans, and goals — are heuristics to help us avoid an infinite calculation each time we want to act. Instead of calculating in each conversation, at each moment, what to reveal and what to conceal, a person adopts the general value of being honest, by default. So, values are a form of knowledge about what works in general, o... See more
Joe Edelman • Human Values
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Values are also updated due to new information, like when we are exposed to previously unknown consequences of a choice. The experience of having an emotion is the experience of reprioritizing after recognizing a new value (often due to new information).
Joe Edelman • Human Values
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