When you are a child, you look to the…

When you are a child, you look to the outside world to determine what values are important for you. For example, your parents will be the one that define how they are going to value you. As a result, many times these values carry over into adulthood. Sometimes, the values that others have of you carry over to adulthood rather than the values that you have set for yourself.

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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Build your worth from the inside. Choose your core values on purpose — pick them, name them, write them down — and then organize and act around them, so that you become whole and undivided rather than at war with yourself, which is the real meaning of integrity. As a child you looked outside yourself to learn what to value; as an adult, the work is to decide for yourself. Stop comparing outward; compete only with yesterday. Quit the race against everyone else entirely; the only worthy contest is against the person you were yesterday, competing with yourself to become a little better than you were. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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