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.
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.