Introduction

You’ve identified unfamiliar tenets that you need to experience more before you can make an informed decision about whether to hold them as a Sincere Belief. Learning how to explore unfamiliar and interesting values without following them helps avoid blurring the lines between Sincere Beliefs and Sound Bites.

In this exercise, you’ll learn to separate exploring and following values:

• Exploring values means creating situations that expose you to a new value in practice, and scrutinizing how experiencing this value makes you feel.
• Following values means allowing the values to influence your decision making and/or feelings.

Goal

You will learn to identify and triage each time you find yourself following a tenet classified as a Sound Bite. In addition, you will have an immediate plan to explore your chosen Sound Bites.

Workbook Output

After you dive into each Sound Bite worth experiencing further, you’ll identify opportunities to design your environment to make experiencing them easy. This step ensures you build experiencing your Sound Bites into your routine.

Tips

• The same Environment Design approach used for Defensive Narratives can be used here.

Pitfalls

• Blurring the line between exploring a Sound Bite and following it.