Take a list of values, attached to this book…
Take a list of values, attached to this book, and pick from those the values that you consider core values and the values that are external values. Pick those that really resonate with you and feel very important to you. There is a lot of overlap in these values so just go with your gut.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
In the book
You become what you repeatedly do — excellence is not an act but a habit — so if you want to be steadier, you must first act steadier; you can even, deliberately, behave as the person you wish to be until the behavior hardens into a self. 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. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)