The 3 Worst Values of All Time
You can sincerely love your family, feel devoted to God, and care deeply about your community—and still behave in ways that harm all three. The problem may not be what you care about. It may be that those words don’t help you choose what to do when life gets messy.
In this episode, Justin explores why Family, God, and Community can be meaningful things to love and serve while still being poor operating values. He explains the gap between the values we say guide us and the values our choices reveal, then offers six practical questions for making more aligned decisions.
Key Ideas and Takeaways
The difference between an espoused value and an enacted value
Why a useful value should help you make a choice when important things compete
How spiritual language can become a way to avoid apologizing, changing, or taking responsibility
What a healthy community needs beyond good intentions: honesty, boundaries, communication, and accountability
Six operating values: Integrity, Joy, Kindness, Communication, Growth, and Responsibility.
A four-step practice for rating your behavior instead of your intentions and choosing one aligned action
Why Listen
This conversation is for anyone who cares deeply about living by their values but suspects their behavior does not always reflect what they say matters. It offers a grounded way to turn a beautiful intention into a useful question—and then into your next response.
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Justin Wenck, Ph.D. is a best-selling author, coach, teacher, speaker, podcaster, and tech professional, and has his doctorate in Electrical Engineering, which means he’s an expert in complex systems and their programming. He is dedicated to using this expertise to optimize the most complex system we know: The Human Being.
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