Objectives

• Become familiar with the basic relationship of human values to psychological and philoshopical endeavors.
• Understand that values are formed from external and internal drives of an individual.
• Explore one’s own value system

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Family

Health

Wealth

Friendship

Wisdom

Creativity

Personal Development

Leadership

Independence

Personal Accomplishment

Power

Enjoyment

Service

Loyalty

Security

Community

Expertness

Prestige

Integrity

Location

Permanent vs. Tentative ChoicesFirming up/establishing a more permanent sense of self and who/what we want to becomeDeciding a life direction and defining/aggressively pursuing a dream of what we want to accomplish in lifeMaking more permanent commitments to love relationships, friends, and peersEstablishing more permanent connections and community ties/ responsibilities

I put Family, Health, Wealth, Friendship and Wisdom as my own first five life values. Family is the most important one. Parents give us life and raise and educate us, they give us all they can give so that we could be a better person. As an international student, the time staying with parents is much shorter, so I really appreciate their supports. I put Health as the second because of my dad. He told me that health is the foundation of everything. Also he told me do not stay up often because metabolism is in progress when we’re sleeping. I think dad’s idea of health influenced my behavior a lot. The next three patterns, Wealth, Friendship and Wisdom, in my opinion, determines whether a person is success. I have three summer internship experience, mostly in financial banking firms, so I have sense how important are these patterns in my future career.

But there are still many difficulties standing in the way that I should overcome such as professional knowledge and people’s connections. However wealth is the ultimate goal of those five values and will take me long time to achieve.

Reflection:

In the life value assessment, I realized that what is my exactly life value and have a deeply thinking of the relationship between human and personal life value. According to the introduction about the steps of How We Choose Our Values. I find that personal life value is different by the influence on environment, self- experience and internal drives. Internal drives means personal characters or thinking model. On the other hand, the personal value guides people to do valuable things for themselves. In the other words, it can say that people’s actions and behaviors are different and it can reflect what their life value is.

Before the life value assessment, I saw the human belief is really different and confused what is truth value for human being according to the description of course materials. When I did the test to choose the top five values for myself, I found even if I didn’t thinking of my own value system before, it is no doubt for me to choose family at first,then wealth, friendship and wisdom. The top 5 values are indeed to guide myself life right now. Thus, this test and reflection let me know my direct purpose in life come from myself value actually. Furthermore, the assignment leads me to thinking what influences on me by the angle of family and personal belief and my goal in the future. I found that the environment and experiment especially family teaching and the school or society systems are important to depend on what value life I have. Meanwhile, compared with my group members thinking, everyone’s life value is different and it is interesting for me to know the other people’s thinking. I think the different life value for each one creates the rich and colorful world.

In the further, I think it is important for me to adjust my current schedule a little to have a good reflection for my life value. If I regard as something as my value in life, it is must to follow them to living. Meanwhile, I look forward to my change of life value by the change of time.

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