• Epistemic values, humanistic values and personal values are best treated as separate. Ofcourse our personal values will inherit and retain our humanistic ones, just as they in turn would inherit the epistemic ones. In other words, a more concentrated valueset should never contradict a broader one. For example, I would consider humour, courage and Dostoevskian goodness as humanistic values. Personal values may include the pursuit of greatness, but such should not go against the base of "goodness". But is this vague notion of goodness rooted in absence of faults? Quite the opposite actually. You can’t be good without being at fault.

  • Personal values form foundations to frame. Your frame defines you to the world. It draws your outline and portrays what you are, what your journey has been like and what you believe in. It permeades into your subconscious guiding your perception of reality and situations. Trouble spews up when your internal representation of self and virtue outright contradicts the frame you carry. Faking isn’t fun to live with.

  • Perception leads to feelings which in turn leads to thoughts and then to actions and behaviours. However, this is not where the chain ends. The chain is bent into a loop as behaviours also influence our perception. This cycle embeds the freedom of conscious will between the layers of thought and action. Your frame encapsulates this cycle. You build and sustain it by consciously influencing your behaviour towards situations.

  • Our frame also has a lot of say in our career outlook and choice of ventures. And given the disarray and chaos of the endeavours I love, my wager's on a spirit that's fun, willed and antifragile. Such are the values I hold dear.

Footnotes

  • Life (exploration, examination, exploitation, creation)
    • Recursive and narrative self-awareness > Freedom
  • Perspective (how deep and broad) => Virtue (Banana) => Freedom
  • Virtue = Goodness = Intrinsic updatable freedom enablers
    • Humor and wisdom >
    • Strength and curiosity >
    • Love and kindness >
    • Humility and temperance >
    • Justice
  • Persuasion (how much and whom) => Capital (Money) => Freedom
  • Capital = Extrinsic updatable freedom enablers
    • Monetary capital >
    • Political capital
  • Character or frame v/s image
    • The problem of presenting perfection than goodness
  • All great practical things are linked to crazy new perspectives. But judging whether something would end up being practical is a much harder problem than whether it provides any new perspective. Hence, perspective maybe used as a heuristic for practicality.