Values
After rekindling lost relationships, getting back into the dating scene, running two startups, and staring age 28 in the mouth, I figured it’s time to sit down and revisit my values.
Relationships
Shared sense of humor:
Alone time:
Curiosity: I find myself incredibly attracted innately curious people.
Work
Craftsmanship: When teaching myself to edit videos in high school, I found myself spending hours trying make the smallest transitions and animations perfect. Is it really worth it?, I thought. Will anyone even notice? I later learned that Youtuber Marques Brownlee said the same thing. I learned how George Carlin would memorize his entire routine down to the second- to perfect his timing and flow. As life goes on, I find myself gravitating towards those that put in a similar level of effort. To say I value quality over quantity is a simplification: I am obsessed with the obsessed!
A Beginner’s Mind: I value those who find profundity in simplicity.
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein
Problem Identification: I value those that take an incredible amount of time and prodding to understand the root cause of a problem- especially when I can watch them in real-time. In school, our exams would have clear-cut, well-scoped problem statements, and we would be graded by how well we could solve them. While problem-solving skills make for good workers, problem-identification skills make for great leaders and visionaries. I’d value the latter over the former any day.
“A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.” -Charles Kettering