A Surprising Way To Find Your Real Values
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If we don’t know what we value, how can we know how to live?
One of Socrates’s aims was to clarify what was actually good and truly important so he could live up to those values.
Therapist and author Donald Robertson suggests one surprising way to find our values: Look for what we despise.
If you dislike a politician because they’re a hypocrite, it implies you value integrity. “You’re projecting your values left, right, and center,” Robertson says.
Once we see this connection, we should ask if we’re living out the opposite of what we despise.
How well did you live up to your values this week on a 1-10 scale? If you score low, ask yourself how you can take one step up the ladder in a single value over the next week.
More integrity is just one action away.