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How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.

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Meaning · SECF
music 2003

Mad World

Gary Jules's cover. Everything familiar made strange. The search for meaning in a world that stopped making sense.

Meaning · SECF
music 1971

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye. The search for meaning in collective suffering - asking the questions no one in power wants asked.

Trust · OAJD
film 1993

Schindler's List

Schindler earning the trust of people who had every reason never to give it again. Trust built through actions that carry real cost.

Trust · OAJD
film 2002

Catch Me If You Can

The other side of trust: a man who destroyed it at every turn and what it cost everyone, including himself.

Trust · OAJD
film 2008

The Dark Knight

Batman's absolute refusal to compromise his code even when it would be easier to. Trust as consistency under pressure.

Trust · OAJD
film 2015

Spotlight

Institutions that betrayed the trust of thousands of children. The people who chose to expose them. Trust destroyed and then partially rebuilt.

Trust · OAJD
film 1994

The Shawshank Redemption

Two men building something rare in a place designed to destroy it: a relationship built entirely on trust over nineteen years.

Trust · OAJD
tv 2013

The Americans

Two KGB agents living a life built on deception - examining in forensic detail what trust costs and what its absence produces.

Trust · OAJD
tv 2020

Ted Lasso

Building organizational trust through radical transparency and consistent follow-through. A show about what reliability looks like at scale.

Trust · OAJD
book 2006

The Speed of Trust

Stephen Covey's argument that trust is the single highest-leverage business skill - the hidden cost and dividend behind everything.

Trust · OAJD
book 1997

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz on integrity to one's word as the foundation of trust. Be impeccable with your word.

Trust · OAJD
myth

Penelope and Odysseus

Twenty years of trust sustained across absence, uncertainty, and suitors. Trust as the architecture of a marriage.

Trust · OAJD
myth

Enkidu and Gilgamesh

The first great friendship in literature, built on trust between two men who were enemies before they were brothers.

Trust · OAJD
history 1215

The Magna Carta

The establishment of contractual trust between king and nobles. The first time power was made formally accountable to consistency.

Trust · OAJD
history 1965

Warren Buffett's Partnership Letters

Sixty years of doing exactly what he said he would do. The compound interest of unbroken trust.

Trust · OAJD
music 1961

Stand by Me

Ben E. King. The trust of knowing someone is there in the dark - the feeling of a reliable human presence.