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Treat moral injury—sustained violation of deeply held

Treat moral injury—sustained violation of deeply held values—as a distinct diagnostic category requiring values realignment rather than stress management or increased willpower.

Why This Is a Principle

Derives from Cognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance (cognitive dissonance produces distress), Emotions function as evaluative signals that provide (emotions function as evaluative signals about events that matter), and Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (cognitive resources deplete with sustained executive function use). The principle recognizes moral injury as structural values misalignment requiring categorical intervention different from burnout or stress. Diagnostic and prescriptive.

Source Lessons

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Misalignment between values and action drains energy

When your daily actions consistently violate your values, the result is chronic fatigue, cynicism, and a pervasive sense that something is wrong — even when you cannot identify what.

Connections

Derived From (3)

AxiomDirected Attention as Depletable Resource AxiomCognitive Dissonance Drives Information Avoidance AxiomEmotions function as evaluative signals that provide

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