Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Update: Values

I’m still thinking about core values.

I think that in fact, my values are control, ability, and status. I think respect is a mix of status and ability. Status just sounds a bit more pretentious, so I think I was embarrassed to use it.

Some other cool mixes I thought of that work for me:
Control + Ability = Protection, Perfection, Productivity
Control + Status = Power, Comfort, Escapism,
Status + Ability = Confidence, Comfort as well?

My hardest one to figure out is family/relationships. I thought they stemmed from respect, but I can’t figure out how to fit it into one of the roots. If anything, the only explanation is that it might just come from ability.

2 comments:

Luke DeLalio said...

Hmmm…. I am pondering this.

Status…. status is a ratio, a measurement, I think, isn't it? Isn't status the measurement of a value, or rather, a measurement of the effect of the interaction of your values and someone else's?

There is something above status, and you use status to monitor how the value above is working.

Does that make sense?

xJess said...

It definitely makes sense, but I'm still trying to figure out what that level is.