My top 5 values are Family, Personal Development, Wisdom, Health, and Friendship.

Today is Friday. I went to school for my DSC class at 11 am. I learned how tocreate the website and write the HTML program which is interesting and useful for me. I got the Enjoyment and Personal development in that time. After class, I hang out with my friend and eat out. We spend some time together and share the things happened around us. We have the Friendship between us. When I come backed home at 6pm, I opened the video chat and get connected with my Family. My father told me that: “ you must be careful, don’t go out when it is late at nigh and you should go out with your friend but not a alone, etc.” My dad reminds me how the security important is. So, I do so. Security is the first thing I need to concern about. After that, I cooked the dinner for myself. I get more and more independence when I leave my home. The top 5 values happen frequently in my life.

My family always tells me some principles, which they go through and understand. I learned a lot from them. My family members, my dad and mom, they believed that we should trust our friends and open your mind to your friends first. This is the first step we should do when we make true friend. Credit and trust is important for me. Until now, my many life patterns inherit from my family and I still believed this belief. As young as I am, I got a lot of goals I want to pursue. I think the biggest problem is how to beat your self, your old self. As for me, I become more independent after I am studying abroad. Therefore, I think achieving a goal is constantly go beyond yourself.

I just read the excerpt from the article, Hunter Lewis’ A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives (1990). That makes me think over the value. What exactly is the value? Where the value comes from?

In the article, the author point out the basis framework of value. Lewis stated, “although the term values is often used loosely, it should be synonymous with personal evaluations and related beliefs, especially personal evaluations and beliefs about the “good”, the “just” and the “beautiful,” (p.7). I think this is the fundamental step when people are thinking about value. Lewis also conclude 6 mental model that how can we gain the knowledge. I agree that people get the knowledge from emotion and authority. Indeed, I rely on the knowledge that I learn from school or authority. I am an emotional people and sometime I judge thing by my instinct. Although my friend would disagree my point, I still insist my view. I don’t know why I will so insist my point in that time. It’s maybe the women sixth sense. That’s also why I don’t know where the value comes from. To be more specific, I never thought about what kind of way we get the “value”. This articles maybe the answer for how we have the “value”.

Also, lewis mentioned that “are the four basis models of developing values truly complete? Are there really no others? Possibly…what is called intuition here may be given a different name elsewhere”. (p.12) That’s true that the 6 models is not exactly work for everyone, but it gave the direction for people to explore. The process of evaluating the things and make a comment is how to shape our value. I consider that people’s cognitive ability is the first thing that people can make comment about something. Different people’s perspective makes various evaluating.

That makes me think about the other way of value. Excepting the 6 ways that Lewis has mentioned. There do still exist the network values. For example, the Xbox game playing, the more different game was released; people would more tend to buy Xbox. To some extent, video games increase Xbox’s value. Therefore, in this case, the value is relative.

Works Cites

Lewis, H. (1990). A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives. Axios Press.