This week, I explain how to feel fulfilled by engaging in specific dimensions of life and why your nature requires such engagement.
** Mondays of Meaning
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October 7th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,
In this week’s edition, I explain how to experience fulfillment through engaging in specific dimensions of life and why human nature requires such engagement. Then, I discuss the process of moving from understanding to harnessing new insights with physicist and author, Dr. Brian Greene. From the archives, I revisit a lecture in which I addressed the complexity of the agreeableness personality trait and why it is sometimes misidentified.
Advice
Strategize Your Practical Needs To Fully Engage In Life
Your brain will thank you for creating a schedule. With a bit of a plan, it will stabilize your nervous system. And that is good. You need something productive to do with your time. You need a career. You need to regulate your intake of alcohol. You need a family. You need the family you have — your parents and siblings — and it would be nice if everyone got along. That is a good initiative in which to put some effort, on which to work. Then, you probably need children at some point. That is what life is.
You may have a good reason not to be operating in one of those dimensions; they are not all mandatory. But if you are not operating reasonably well in at least three of them, you will not be psychologically thriving. In some sense, that fact is more pragmatic than it is psychological.
Human beings have a nature (i.e., things we need). If we have what we need, we feel fulfilled. But if we do not, then we feel the lack. This is what behavioral psychologists concentrate on — the practical. They guide you to make a career plan, to negotiate, to say what you mean, to tell the truth, and to listen, particularly to your partner.
If you listen to your partner, they will actually tell you what they want. Over time, if you practice giving them what they want and they return the favor, you will constantly be giving each other what you both want. It is better to have two brains than one because people think differently — mostly because of their temperament. Negotiation is where wisdom arises, which is part of the psychological transformation that is attendant in an intimate relationship. It is also one of the purposes of a long-term intimate relationship.
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** On The Podcast
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The Intersection Of Science And Meaning | Dr. Brian Greene | EP 486
In this episode, I talk with physicist and author, Dr. Brian Greene. We discuss the strange conceptualization of “before” the Big Bang, how time might be a microscopic phenomenon, how order existed at the point of the universe's creation, what would happen if you fell into a black hole, and the process of going from understanding to harnessing new insights.
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** From The Archives
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Do You Have The “Agreeableness” Personality Trait?
Agreeableness is a difficult personality dimension to understand. In this segment from a 2017 lecture, I begin by addressing the difficulty of discerning neuroticism and extraversion. Since agreeable people tend to like other people, agreeableness is sometimes confused with extraversion. Similarly, people with a disagreeable personality trait are often considered hard to get along with, but people high in neuroticism are as well. They are often volatile and irritable. For example, being engaged in a contentious issue with someone may have more to do with neuroticism than disagreeableness. First, I describe what the agreeable trait is; then, I identify positives and negatives about it. Of all the traits, agreeableness seems to come with the most marked positive and negative features at each point on the distribution. It is certainly a complex dimension. Finally, I explain the Big Five Aspects Scale with example questions to unveil the nuances associated with personality traits.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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