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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI

Values Clarification

Informal Practice

A reflective practice for identifying, ranking, and operationalizing your core values — moving from vague aspirations to concrete behavioral commitments.

Linked Lessons

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Values are what you optimize for

Map Your Revealed Values in Notion Using Behavioral Data

Stated values versus revealed values

Track Your Revealed Values in a Google Sheets Audit

Values are discovered through reflection

Discover Your Core Values Through Three Evidence Streams in Notion

Peak experiences reveal values

Map Peak Experience Patterns in Notion

Resentment reveals violated values

Map Resentment to Values in Day One

Values come from many sources

Map Your Values Origins in Notion

Some values are inherited and unexamined

Map Your Inherited Values in Notion

Values change over time

Map Your Value Evolution in Notion

Core values versus instrumental values

Map Your Values Ladder in Obsidian

Values conflicts are inevitable

Map Your Value Conflicts in Notion

The values hierarchy

Force-Rank Your Values Using a Comparison Matrix in Google Sheets

Values articulation exercise

Articulate Your Core Values in Notion

Other people's values are different from yours

Map Conflicting Values in a Recent Frustration Using Day One

Values-based decision making

Build a Values-Decision Matrix in Google Sheets

Values as a compass, not a map

Map Your Value Compass in Obsidian

Regularly revisit your values

Set Up Quarterly Values Check-Ins in Google Calendar with Notion Templates

Known values are the foundation of sovereign choice

Build Your Personal Values Architecture in Notion

Alignment between commitments and values

Map Your Commitments to Core Values in Notion

Priorities reflect values

Map Your Values Against Your Time in Notion

Financial pressure distorts priorities

Map Your Financial Pressure Points in Google Sheets

Anchoring to values under pressure

Build a Values Anchor Card in Notion

Peer pressure in adult life

Map Your Conformity Channels in Notion

Building a pressure-resistant identity

Audit Your Identity Statements in Day One

Values-based arbitration

Build a Values Hierarchy Matrix in Google Sheets

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