My Values

I try to embody them often, and the people I connect with best usually have all or the most of these traits:

• Open-mindedness → desire to learn new things, open to different perspectives, following your curiosity

• Reliability → being someone others can trust, doing what you said you'd do, keeping promises you make

• Kindness → being helpful to other people, looking at the world through a positive lens

• Empathy → deeply connecting with others, asking questions that people aren't used to answering

• Authenticity → carrying yourself in a way that's true to you, not changing based on what others will think

• Agency → using free will to get what you want, being a leader, avoiding complacency or entitlement

• Marginal improvements → not focusing at the top of the mountain, but at the next step in front of you

• Not taking yourself too seriously → people who can make jokes at their own expense are instantly likeable

• Humility → being grounded, not carrying around arrogance, maintaining composure in victory and defeat

• Competition → as a big sports fan, I loved how it can be used (in a healthy way) to improve focus/progress

• Self-Awareness → introspecting, understanding your true strengths/weaknesses, living in line with yourself

• Choosing discomfort → chasing opportunities to live outside your comfort zone, not letting fear control you