Intuition: how it works
During his interview with Solomon Shang, the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung tells a very revealing story about two patients of him.
The man was of the extroverted type, and the girl was introverted, “so, naturally, (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Carl Gustav Jung’
There’s nothing wrong with being a freak
Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.
We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)
Honor your unconscious
Only extreme ignorance or arrogance can lead to believe that one fully controls one’s behavior. To begin with, we are alive beings, and we don’t know what life is: scientists can describe its parts or modify its working, but they cannot explain life. What I am going to discuss here is Carl Gustav Jung’s basic ideas on the unconscious, and you may agree with them or not, but one fact is already undeniable: (more…)
A few low level capture tips (part one)
I have always been a natural note taker. Ever since I learned to write, I have been used to carry with me some kind of capture device. Looking back at my (huge) piles of notebooks, I guess I was missing the second half of the process (more…)