Dicodomy: Should i work on my own life and make my life better, or should i try to make other people's lives better? Right? Yes, except i wouldn't want to make it binary. There are these self enhancing values, and they are things like power, or personal achievement, or hedonism. And then there are other values that are more about opennest to change versus being conservative or traditional. The why there are on two ends of the spectrum is that he finds that they're not very correlated, but it is possible.