What you can’t stand to watch happen to other people says a lot about what you’d fight for.

Values tend to show up as a flinch before they show up as an opinion. The moment you go hot on somebody else’s behalf, you have been handed real information about what you actually hold. It is more reliable than a list of beliefs because nobody chose it.

Think back to the last time you got angry for someone else and name what was being violated. Fairness, honesty, somebody smaller being pushed around. Then find one small place this week where that thing is happening and quietly get in the way.