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Thanks for the comment and the great questions, Artie.

With those 3 examples, my point was not to claim that those three values will naturally follow for everyone, but only that they were my personal examples. So Rationality, Compassion, and Mindfulness are the values I discovered for myself as a result of my own work.

It's entirely possible that a person who views others as tools for their own success would then discern something else as their value. For example, their value may be: Instrumentalism, Self-Interest, Power, etc. Similarly, those who are obsessed with the future and take actions based on that criterion, will discover a different value for themselves such as Foresight, Perfectionism, etc.

It's not that I believe that "compassion" and "mindfulness" are always brought out through a strong work ethic. My belief has, in fact, no role to play in this. Instead, what I see is that when I look back at my own work-ethic (and my actions that have flowed from it), I seem to personally value compassion and mindfulness (and rational thinking).

In other words, if you looked at my actions on my projects and interactions with others (i.e. my work-ethic) over a long period of time, you would likely ascribe those three values to me.

So a strong work-ethic transformed into actions taken by different people would lead to each of them discovering what they personally find valuable.