One of the reasons I love studying, thinking about, and teaching physics is that it is the process of revealing underlying truths: the things that nature really values are not those same qualities that we first notice.
I'm happy to report that I think today's youth is better at being less superficial than my own generation in this regard, but in large part I think it is fair to say that most people put a lot of value in the following:
In both columns these may be the attributes that are most easily identified and somehow seem tangible to us. Obviously, in the moment, as you are maneuvering through the world in the day-to-day, these factors do inform that navigation. But just because something is easy to identify and others talk primarily about certain attributes, does not necessarily mean those are the important ones in an essential sense.
As you study physics and, also, really begin to understand people what emerges as important is more like:
“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.” ―
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