{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.10 / Values vs. virtues: what's the difference?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3568,"description":"Enron's core values were respect, integrity, communication and excellence. In 2001 the company went bankrupt, brought down by fraud. Core values don't matter when they're written. They matter when they're lived.\nEveryone has core values. They're your criteria for making decisions, and most of us never look at them. My co-host Nick Surface and I started on the money conversation from the last two episodes and ended up on what's underneath it: the difference between a value and a virtue.\nWhat's the difference between a value and a virtue?\nA core value is the criteria you use to make decisions. A virtue is something that's always right, always good and always true. Comfort, money, winning and power aren't always good. Honor, humility, excellence and generosity are.\nIs comfort a bad thing?\nNo. But when comfort becomes a core value, the dominoes fall a long way: pain started being promoted as the fifth vital sign, pain management became an industry, and the opioid crisis followed. It's not as simple as that sounds, and that's the point. Small criteria have downstream effects you can't see.\nDiscipline or regret?\nJim Rohn said there are two great pains in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces. Regret weighs tons. You carry discipline now and regret later.\nHow do you know what's always right?\nJesus said you'll know them by their fruit (Matthew 7:16). The Stoics landed on four virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance and justice, which became the church's cardinal virtues.\nHow do you build core values?\nAdmit that feelings are most people's default criteria. Define each value. Then get around people with the fruit you want and take their values. Mine are honor, humility, excellence and generosity. Nick's are faith, dream, grow, connect and serve. My first book, The Way to Live, walks through a similar process.\nScriptures\nMatthew 6:21 · Matthew 7:16-20 · Matthew 7:24-27 · John 14:6\nPeople and ideas\nPlato: the form of the good, and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}