Valerie Tiberius

All of these conflicts can cause us to wonder whether we’re on the right track.

single goal can be present to our conscious minds at one time but hidden from us at another.

you’re pulled in two conflicting directions, you have to decide which way to go.

Values, as I define them, are special goals. They tend to be more “ultimate” (rather than “instrumental”), in the sense that we want to achieve them for their own sakes. They also tend to be important to us and, ideally, well integrated into our psychology. In other words, values are goals that are high up in our hierarchy and ones we are not internally conflicted about.