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Our Social And Private Values Impact Our Lives

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Welcome to planet Earth, here on earth things are very differently than they are on Procyon A and B. Values and attitudes are what guide our day to day decisions on every aspect of our lives. It is very important to understand how our social and private values impact our everyday lives. I am going to tell you how we manage to stay organized here on earth. Some time ago, a man named Shalom H Schwartz came up with a theory on human values which became known as The Schwartz Theory. The Schwartz Theory is something which explains how us humans experience every day in our lives. This theory proposes various human types made up of what he called “Bipolar Dimension” which is then split up into 4 categories however, I will only mention the First and Second Bipolar Dimension below for now as they are most relatable ones.
The “First Bipolar Dimension” includes “Self-Enhancement”, which is the pursuit of one’s own interests and relative success as the motivation that makes us humans feel good about ourselves. It is like a daily competition with ourselves and if that goal isn’t achieved it tends to create in us feeling of a personal failure. Another category included in the first dimension is called “Self-Transcendence” and it is measured by how far we come in our spiritual journey transcending our physical needs. We humans, must sometimes take time to ourselves thought the day to put our mind and body in a calm state.
We sometimes do this using various

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