1. Family
2. Wisdom
3. Enjoyment
4. Personal Accomplishment
5. Friendship
6. Health
7. Loyalty
8. Personal development
9. Wealth
10. Prestige
11. Expertness
12. Security
13. Integrity
14. Power
15. Service
16. Independence
17. Community
18. Leadership
19. Creativity
20. Location

Today’s activity showed 4 out of my top 5. Almost every morning, I start my day by calling my mom. My family is what I value the most. Also I usually have my headphones on, listening to music when walking from class to class. Music is the enjoyment that I cannot give up during the day. Having meals and studying with my friends represent how much I value both personal accomplishment and friendship.

My parents raised me without pressure about my grades in school. So I used to let things go pretty well even if I did not get an impressive grade. However, as I have decided to pursue my job in a medicine field, I realized that I needed the grades that graduate schools require for me to have in order to get in to their schools. I am grateful for how my parents raised me, but I cannot agree with their way of thinking about school anymore. As I am planning to graduate my undergrad soon and am going to pursue my dream of working in a medicine field, I have to do well in my classes. Because I need enjoyment in my life,  I often find it hard to juggle the two.

Lewis H. points out six characteristics of the ways that can explain how individuals value one than others: sense experience, deductive logic, emotion, intuition, authority, and science. I agree with the fact that not solely one of the six analyzes and explains the formation of individual’s decision, but rather the mixture of the six  systems explain the individual’s favor on one than other. There will be a primary mode, but it is not directly led to the final decision. As it was shown in the example of Obie Wan Kenobie, even though emotion can be the primary mode, “opposing emotional values eventually lead” (14). I can definitely relate myself to this everyday. I become impulsive sometimes. But my “opposing emotional values” such as, sense experience and logic, contradict the previous emotion. Thus I don’t make decision primarily based on my emotional reason.