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Anton Zaides's avatar

Thank you Peter, that was a great article and a very interesting exercise (which took me a few days and iteration to complete).

I landed on:

Internal honesty

Doing Good

Ambition

I feel strongly about them, and have in my mind what it means, but struggled to translate to sentences. This is what I came up with:

Doing good - I improve lives through my actions (not chasing quick money, not working on things that will hurt or not benefit other humans)

Internal Honesty - I behave authentically (I wanted to add about speaking the truth, but I feel it's very hard for me to measure up to that. Not always being nice and saying 'white lies'. The point is to listen within and do the things I want and believe in, and not be guided by pleasing others).

Ambition - I aim higher than is reasonable.

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Peter Inge's avatar

Thank you for the kind words, Anton! I'm happy to hear you took some time to really go through the exercise. I hope & suspect you'll be glad you did.

While doing this once won't give you "all the answers", it's a strong starting place to grow & learn from over time.

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Dave Masom's avatar

“They are never one word” - such a simple but practical rule, and I feel like this is pretty counter to most of the examples you see. Love it!

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Peter Inge's avatar

Thanks Dave! Works great for company core values too :)

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