| Title | : | Personality And Its Transformations |
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| Format Type | : | Kindle , Hardcover , Paperback , Audiobook & More |
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| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1998 |
Personality And Its Transformations Reviews
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What a great introduction to psychology this series of lectures is. I listened to some of Peterson's audiobooks - they are great as well - but he's on his best when he is allowed to improvise, point out connections to related fields, go off-the-road, deep into all kinds of rabbit holes and then miraculously get back on track- almost like a jazz musician. In that respect, he's as much of an artist as a scientist. High in orderliness AND openness, as he would say.
Another aspect I love is how he constantly applies his concepts to real life, without ever leaning towards self-help, nor sacrificing on the depth and nuance of the subject. Talking about the matter as well as about 'what matters'.
Highlight in this series IMO - and the view count on YouTube seems to agree - is his psycho-analytical discussion of The Lion King. This episode is the obvious candidate for a single release, to continue the music metaphor. Of course, listening to the entire album is still the real thing...
As of now, there are three volumes of this lecture series on YouTube: 2015, 2016 and 2017. I listened to the 2017 version, as I thought this one to be the best camera and sound wise. Don't expect a high-end, five-camera HD production though. The nice thing about this is that you can just listen to it while running/cycling/cleaning, as long as you take a short break to look at your phone whenever an important visual comes along. Highly recommended. -
the missing manual to the homo sapiens brain
everyone should listen to this. EVERY ONE -
The knowledge I accumulated from listening to this series has tackled so many issues I've read and was challenged about in a way more detailed depth and very coherent way.
it has shaped my knowledge of the human personalities and made my thinking more articulate. -
This lecture series concentrates to a large degree on philosophical and neuroscientific issues, related to personality. It is divided into five primary topics, following an introduction and overview. The first half of the course deals with classic, clinical issues of personality; the second, with biological and psychometric issues.
1. Introduction
2. Historical and Mythological Context
In this lecture, I provide some historical context for the understanding of personality, suggesting that the clinical theories, concerned with the transformation and improvement of personality and character, are embedded within a classic narrative/ mythological structure.
3. Heroic and Shamanic Initiations
In this lecture, I discuss the relationship between the initiatory structure characteristic of shamanism and the process of radical personality transformation, self- or therapy-induced. The basic structure is order/paradise, chaos/the fall, re-establishment of order/paradise. Since all paradises fall, however, the true paradise is identification with the process of transformation itself.
4. Jean Piaget and Constructivism
In this lecture, I talk about the great developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, who was interested, above all, in the way that knowledge is generated and transforms. His analysis of the development of morality in children, which relates early play to social cooperation and competition, is particularly profound.
*5/6. Carl Jung and the Lion King, Part 1 and Part 2
In this lecture, I use Disney's Lion King to further illustrate the basic principles of the personality and clinical theories of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, student of Nietzsche and Freud, originator of analytical psychology, and great interpreter of mythology and archetype.
*7. Freud and the Dynamic Unconscious
In this lecture, I discuss some of the essential of Sigmund Freud's theories, concentrating on his conceptualizations of the dynamic (living) unconscious.
8. Humanism and Phenomenology: Carl Rogers
In this lecture, I begin to talk about Dr. Carl Rogers, a humanist psychotherapist in the phenomenological tradition, and an expert on listening and embodied wisdom. Dr. Rogers offers very profound and practical lessons on the value of truthful relationships.
9. Existentialism: Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Kierkegaard
In this lecture, I discuss the Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy of Being, interpreted through the eyes of the psychotherapists Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss. The phenomenologists were attempting to to reduce the painful separation between object and subject that has as one of its consequence the elimination of meaning from existence.
10. Phenomenology: Heidegger, Binswanger, and Boss
In this lecture, I discuss the Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy of Being, interpreted through the eyes of the psychotherapists Ludwig Binswanger and Medard Boss. The phenomenologists were attempting to to reduce the painful separation between object and subject that has as one of its consequence the elimination of meaning from existence.
*11. Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
In this lecture, I explore the dreadful sociopolitical consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism, often of the most murderous sort, employing as an example the work/death camps of the Soviet Union.
*12. Introduction to Traits/Psychometrics/The Big 5
In this lecture, I begin discussing the development of modern trait theory. Psychologists, expert in measurement and statistics, discovered extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience, and begin the process of delineating their social significance and biological underpinnings.
13. Biology and Traits: The Limbic System
In this lecture, I begin my discussion of the relationship between brain function, at a deep, subcortical level, and the existence of the five traits identified by psychometric researchers.
14. Biology and Traits: Incentive Reward and Neuroticism
In this lecture, I continue my discussion of the relationship between subcortical brain processes and the big five personality traits identified by psychometric researchers, focusing on the relationship between positive/negative emotion and extraversion/neuroticism.
15. Biology and Traits: Agreeableness
In this lecture, I talk about the Big Five trait agreeableness, which is the dimension of the care system, in Jaak Panksepp's terminology. It can be construed as cooperation vs competition, or compliance vs non-compliance, or tender-mindedness vs tough-mindedness.
It is also an important determinant of political belief, being the trait most associated with the body of ideas that has come to be known as politically correct.
Agreeable people tend to view the political world as innocent infant vs reptilian predator. Perhaps this is good for you (although probably not) if you are placed in the innocent infant category, but it is not so good if you are deemed reptilian predator :)
16/17. Biology and Traits: Openness, Intelligence, and Creativity
In this lecture, I talk about Big Five trait openness to experience, which is the dimension composed of an amalgam of creativity and intelligence. I also discuss IQ: how it is measured, what it means, how powerfully it predicts long-term life success, as well as the highly skewed Pareto distribution of creative production.
*18. Biology and Traits:
Orderliness, Disgust, and Conscientiousness
In this lecture, I provide details about trait conscientiousness, the best predictor of life success after intelligence (particularly among managers, administrators and students). Sounds good? But conscientiousness is partly composed of aspect orderliness, along with industriousness, and orderliness is associated both with disgust and with authoritarianism (particularly among those low in openness to experience). Hitler and the Jews? The Holocaust? Orderliness and disgust sensitivity gone mad.
The more parasitic and transmissible diseases in a particular locale, the higher the probability people held authoritarian attitudes.
19. Biology and Traits: Performance Prediction
In this lecture, I talk about the thorny problem of predicting performance: academic, industrial, creative and entrepreneurial); about the practical utility of such prediction, in the business and other environments; about the economic value of accurate prediction (in hiring, placement and promotion)—which is incredibly high.
Intelligence (psychometrically measured IQ) is the best predictor of performance in complex, ever changing environments. Conscientiousness is the (next) best predictor, particularly in the military, in school and in conservative businesses. Agreeable people make better caretakers; disagreeable people, better disciplinarians and negotiators (within reasonable bounds). Open people are artistic, creative and entrepreneurial. Extraverts are good socially. Introverts work well in isolation. People low in neuroticism have higher levels of tolerance for stress (but may be less sensitive to real signs of danger).
Match the career you pursue to your temperament, rather than trying to adjust the latter. Although some adjustment is possible, there are powerful biological determinants of the five personality dimensions and IQ (particularly in environments where differences are allowed to flourish).
Price’s law: the square route of the number of employees produce half the output.
Pareto distribution: the tendency for all resources to end up with a very small proportion of the population.
20. Conclusion: Psychology and Belief
In this lecture, I bring the 2017 Introduction to Personality and its Transformations to its close, talking about the psychology of belief, describing the reality and potential of the individual. Human beings are information foragers, evolved to live on the border between explored and unexplored territory, order and chaos and, symbolically, ying and yang. That's where information flow is maximized, and the meaning that helps buttress us against tragedy is to be found. -
Taking this course was the best thing that happened to me in a long time. Prof. Peterson has been my mentor for a very long time, and I'm so glad I discovered him.
This course introduced me to many school of thoughts in philosophy; (Existentialism, Phenomenology), and psychology; (Behaviorism, Psychoanalysis.) I also got introduced to many great thinkers of the last 200 years like:
Friedrick Nietzsche (my favorite philosopher as of now LOL), Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Carl Jung, and S. Freud.
I also learned quite a lot about The Big 5, which is so fundamental. It helped me understand my fundamental nature, my unconscious implicit values, and ways to direct my good traits towards productivity and deal with my flaws in a sophisticated manner. Most importantly, I learned how to decipher my Shadow. -
Excelente y relevante, como para oír de nuevo más de una vez (aunque primero oiría sus libros-libros, que esto es más casi un bootleg de una clase).
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Now this, was a pretty good book!
Controvercial Statement Alert
I think it was just as good OR BETTER than
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief!
I would recommend if you like how JBP teaches psychology.
4.2/5 -
Fantastic synthesis of a plethora of personality psychology schools.
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Mind blowing
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