The Power of Value Hierarchy

When we have experiences, our feeling brain creates a sort of value hierarchy for them. This is essentially what growth is, reprioritizing one's value hierarchy in an optimal way. For example, I once had a friend who was probably the hardest partier I had ever known. She would stay out all night and then go straight to work from the party in the morning with zero hours of sleep. When she did volunteer abroad things, where young people spend a couple months working with orphans in a third world country, it completely rearranged her value hierarchy.