{"id":221976,"date":"2024-05-07T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/?p=221976"},"modified":"2024-05-08T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:56:18","slug":"your-values-explain-basically-everything-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/your-values-explain-basically-everything-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Your values explain basically everything you do"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Takeaway<\/strong>: Can\u2019t explain why you act the way you do? Your values may be at play. There are 10 human values that we hold most dear, explained below.<\/p>\n

Estimated Reading Time<\/strong>: 2 minutes, 22s.<\/div><\/div>\n

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When I was a teenager, I ran a marathon. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n

Following the instructions from a great book (my memory is hazy but I\u2019m pretty sure this<\/a> was the one), I trained for hours on our treadmill at home. By a certain point, I was practically running a full marathon in the basement. The book made it so that, once you got to the point where you could run the distance, the actual marathon was easy\u2014you had already done the hard work in training. (Or at least this was how I felt as a teenager\u2014I might feel differently at 35!)<\/p>\n

Reaching this marathon milestone, I did what I usually do in such scenarios: I quit. I stopped running entirely and didn\u2019t sign up for a marathon as I had planned to. Once I had proven to myself that I could run the distance, I had no interest in the follow through. There was nothing left for me to figure out.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on this experience, as well as where I fall on the list of 10 fundamental human values<\/a> (refresher below!), my reaction makes sense.<\/p>\n

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In the values continuum, I score incredibly high on self-direction and relatively low on achievement. Put differently, I care less about accomplishing things than I do about proving to myself that I can. (While figuring out how to do them in my own way.)<\/p>\n

Looking back at my life through this lens explains a lot of my decisions that, at the time, didn\u2019t make sense:<\/p>\n