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A values hierarchy is what behaviour reveals, not what a person would say if asked, and the two frequently disagree.

Borrowed values announce themselves through one vocabulary: "I have to", "I ought to", "I should".

Alignment removes the need for willpower because attention follows the hierarchy without being prompted.

Low-value tasks can only run on imported energy, which is finite, so they drain and get abandoned.

Values derive from voids, the areas of perceived lack, so what was most missing becomes most prized.

Gratitude decides a void's direction. What cannot be thanked becomes baggage, what can becomes fuel.

Telos is Aristotle's name for the highest value, the end in mind toward which action is directed.

The thalamus filters sensory input by value, admitting high-value signals to consciousness and routing the rest away.

Attention deficit describes the content, not the person, because the same child attends for hours on high-value material.

Four faculties run on the same filter: attention, retention, imagination and intention, each with a surplus and a deficit form.

Self-worth is a readout of alignment rather than something built directly through affirmation.

The medial prefrontal cortex activates when a value-aligned goal is set, and it myelinates with use.

Living in lower values fuels the amygdala instead, which has no connection to the visual cortex, so vision is lost.

Exaggerating another person minimises you in the same act, because the comparison has to be paid for.

Injected values are Freud's superego, an outer authority's values absorbed and given power.

The law of contrast means a prior state, not the object, sets the reading, demonstrated by three beakers of water.

Resentment marks a disowned part, because a person only resents outside what they will not claim inside.

Fantasies are conscious of positives and unconscious of negatives, nightmares the reverse, and true objectives hold both.

Risk mitigation converts a fantasy into an objective by pairing every anticipated failure with a prepared solution.

Positive thinking alone is a fantasy, because nothing extraordinary can be built from one side.

Value-linking asks how specific material serves a named top value, repeated ten, eight and six times.

Genius is a byproduct of pursuing challenges that inspire, not a resource a person has or lacks.

Nobody works for the sake of a company, so engagement depends on the job serving the worker's own hierarchy.

Hiring by values screens whether a candidate already sees the link, and the interviewer must not supply it.

Charisma is the mastery of communicating what you value in terms of what other people value.

Financial independence is very unlikely unless wealth building sits within a person's top four values.

Money circulates from those who value it least toward those who value it most.

An asset puts money in your pocket and a liability takes it out, so classification follows cash direction.

A soulmate is a balanced individual rather than a one-sided fantasy, because everyone carries both poles.

Everything a person seeks in a partner is already distributed across the people in their life.