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Filtering Your Core Values From Junk Values
I found the term junk values while watching a random video on Youtube where they took an extract from a Joe Rogan video interviewing Johann Hari.
I had been living on junk values for almost a decade, chasing the wrong things.
What are junk values?
They are pseudo-values that provides the illusion that you are working towards something that will bring you happiness in the end.
Preliminary conclusion: They don’t.
They can be material: Salary raises, house, car, jewellery, designer or branded things, watches, basically anything tangible that money can buy.
Or Intangibles: Social status, job titles, accolades, basically anything that can validate the ego.
There is nothing wrong with material things or a job promotion per say but it becomes junk when it is not meaningful to you.
It becomes superficial when they do not match fundamentally what you stand for.
I have worked in finance long enough to know that money forms part of some people’s core values and I find nothing wrong with that.
