I mean it makes sense but doesn't make sense.

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mon and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show what are to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, what are values, really?

Do you vibe with being a mobster, or do you vibe with caring about the world. Mike, we have a question from someone named Matt Farmer.

Well, hello, Matt Farmer.

And he writes, one aspect of psychology that comes up frequently in your episodes, but which I almost never hear defined directly, is values.

What even are values in the first place? Where do they come from? How are they

different from attitudes or personality traits? These seem like big and

important questions. Interesting. This question is actually, I think, a big and important one. I've at least devoted

10% maybe about that of my teaching to the science of values because when you talk about grit the

question of values I think is like pretty much front and center but since you

Mike unlike me have actually worked in the real world.

Oh, I thought you were going to say since you unlike me have no values.

No, no, then I would say, well.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

No values jokes, very serious. No but I actually do wonder about this

perennial question. I remember talking to Erica James about this. She's the

Dean of the Wharton School of Business and she is therefore in some ways my boss and

Erica said something that surprised me. She was just like you know I don't

really respect and admire much the practice of naming your core values and

putting it on the wall of your team room or your company or the back of your sweatshirt or whatever.

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