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Personal Values And A Life In Conflict: How Your Choices, Compromises, and Habits Truly Shape Everyday Life
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Series: Identity, Values and Meaning
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You do not live in conflict because you lack values, but because they compete without a clear hierarchy. In everyday life, this appears as postponed decisions, poorly sustained boundaries, and choices made to avoid immediate discomfort. Taken separately, nothing seems serious. Over time, the accumulation produces fatigue, diffuse irritation, and the persistent feeling of constantly negotiating with yourself.
This book examines how poorly organized values structure choices, habits, and daily tolerances. Here, value is not what is declared, but what is protected when there is a cost: time, energy, money, relationships, and willingness to face conflict. By observing these concrete indicators, it becomes possible to understand why incoherence is more exhausting than difficult decisions.
The work analyzes common mechanisms of practical life - recurring postponement, the automatic yes, the exception that becomes routine, security turned into a dominant value - showing how they build a functional yet draining architecture of life. Incoherence is not treated as a moral failure, but as the accumulated cost of avoided choices and silent concessions.
Without promising quick solutions or formulas for change, the book offers clarity: about what governs everyday life, about the real price of maintained concessions, and about the inevitability of renunciation in any life organized by values. The horizon is not a conflict-free existence, but a more inhabitable life - with less internal noise and less need for self-justification.
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