#Howtodefineyourpersonalvalue

[christinemonk]

Your core personal value is the guiding principle of your life. They are select chosen values that you choose to abide by in order to fulfill your life purpose. But, in the sense of freely chosen values, do values really exist?

Isn’t it true that human beings are led by hereditary instincts, instincts that we try to dress up with fancy terms like values to make it seem like we have some control over the process when it’s all built into our genes? Even if genetic impulses do not directly affect human behaviour, aren’t our personal values mostly dictated by our personalities, which are substantially shaped by our genes? It’s difficult to say whether our personalities are mostly determined by our genes, our childhood experiences, or a combination of the two. It  isn’t relevant for our purposes because personal opinions and personality traits are fundamentally different, not the same thing. Personal values are beliefs, not personality traits, and no matter how intertwined the two are, attempting to understand the former only in terms of the latter is certain to fail.

So if personal values are freely chosen beliefs, then how do we get to them? How do we discover them? Read this blog to find out.