• They say, “We need to clarify the Purpose of Life,” not create a new one.

  • What do I consider good and what do I want to avoid in my daily routine tasks?

  • What is gradual clarification by observing it.

  • abstraction

  • You said, “I had choices A and B, and I chose A. Why is that?”

    • Clarify the “part of Option A that you feel is intrinsically valuable” in Option A.
  • If it’s A and B, you pick A. If it’s C and D, you pick C. What do they have in common?”

    • Clarify commonalities between the preferred alternatives
  • Why not B’s and D’s?”

    • Clarify what is being interpreted negatively.
  • The Intellectual Production of Engineers, p. 64, for more information.

  • Values are verbalized bottom-up.

Clarification ofobjectives

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