S2 Episode 10 - The Conscience Code: Ethics for a New Era

Purpose Highway®

HIGHLIGHTS

04:42 Secular institutions can reinforce values but not provide their structures

10:01 Integrating your authentic self into your professional role

15:07 Inattention blindness: Distraction with business blinds to values

20:48 Bringing self-awareness to work and becoming a person of conscience

27:23 Leaders can transition from being to corrupt and not realize the transition

33:19 Keep your humanity: Refuse complicity and believe in the power of 2

40:24 Living according to values and leading a meaningful life

42:13 The Commitment Project: An attempt to impart values to students

46:56 There is choice in a corrupt system and it starts with the right thoughts

51:37 Corruption happens when you allow rationalization to become your thought

58:27 Becoming a pacifist and committing to values to live by

1:02:03 Buddhism meditation and awareness of the impermanence of life

1:05:09 Anchoring on your own conscience code on connection

1:07:04 Connect with Richard

QUOTES

13:56 "There's a lack of integration between the personal and the professional realm over certain basic values that ought to be informing both sides of the life and these are values like compassion for suffering, honesty, and transparency."

21:26 "One of the most important things people can do to bring this sense of self-awareness to their day-to-day life at work is to think of themselves as a person of conscience, someone who has values and they implement those values at home by duty and habit."

34:39 "Never take this journey alone. The damage comes when you allow yourself to be isolated, when you allow yourself to be minimized and marginalized and you know what's going on is toxic. You know it's wrong but you don't speak because you think you're the only one."

40:24 "I think a lot of why people respond when you speak up for values is it's healing for them within themselves. And people really crave that sense of integration which is a sense of meaning and purpose."

53:42 "Aristotle teaches us that virtue, just like exercise, is a habit. And as soon as you allow yourself to behave in a way that violates your own conscience, you form the habit of being unvirtuous. So the power of two helps."

56:03 "It's much easier to keep your principles a hundred percent of the time than it is to keep them 98% of the time."

57:14 "What is the spiritual side of your life? It's the side that connects you to all the things greater than yourself."

To find out more about Richard, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-shell-4baa15203
• Wharton Profile - https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/shellric/
• Website - http://www.grichardshell.com/

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