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Friday, June 7, 2013

0 Zen and the Inquiry of Values

Values are, uhm, valuable. And we value them. I'm sorry I can't just start it.

No one is born with values. You're born a blank sheet and your life is filling that sheet in with whatever design you want your life to be. You decide on those designs by how you are raised, the enviroment you're in, the experiences you experience, the life you learn shapes what you value.

I've learned a lot from reading and from experiencing second hand other people's experiences.
  • Flexibility/Adaptability: Because seriously, it is in our nature to change and evolve and if you can't handle it, life will not be fun for you.
  • Independence: Same. There's nothing wrong with depending on others. in some cases, you're even required to. However, it's seriously going to hold you back in life if you're always waiting on someone or for someone. The same thing goes for living. You can't just life for someone else.
  • Growth: Growth=evolution, innovation, all of those good things that enable our world to continue to change and improve.
  • Leadership: Because if everyone's a follower, we're only going to be going round and round in miserable little unimaginiative circles.
  • Helpfulness: This goes along with my duty to not be a douchebag rule.
  • Knowledge: A lot of my values pertain to advancement. Knowledge is no exception.
  • Logic: Being objective is the best way to act most of the time, not matter how subjectively you feel. Can I use subjective in that way? Is that correct?
  • Perceptiveness: I believe understand others is how we improve our life. Not understanding is like a recipe for disaster.
  • Practicality: This just make sense.
  • Nonconformity: Because a world with only the same thing doesn't leave room for black nor white nor the complicated shades of gray and that's just a shame.

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