2017 Personality 01: Introduction

In this lecture, I define personality from multiple angles, historical, constructivist, psychoanalytic, behavioral and neuropsychological. Personality is a way of looking at the world, and a characteristic mode of behaving. It's both stable and adaptively dynamic.

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🎬 TIME STAMPS/NOTES 📝

00:00 Introduction
1:29 Definition and The Complexity of a Personality
7:07 Falling short of The Ideal/Benefits of Understanding instead of Memorizing

INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF PERSONALITY

11:36 "Big Five Personality Model" / Dimensions/Traits of Personality
13:52 Agreeableness
14:35 Conscientiousness
23:05 Openness
25:26 "It's not obvious that your personality is inside you" / Personality in Relations to Outside Complex Systems
30:11 About Independence
31:27 The "Hero Stories" as a Fundamental Element of the Clinical Theories / Carl Jung: "In Filth It Will Be Found"
37:54 Using the Tools

LECTURES OVERVIEW

42:48 The Importance Of Learning How To Act
45:15 About Heroic and Shamanic Initiation, Constructivism & Jean Piaget and the rest of the lectures (Jung, Freud & Rogers)

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[DeadSoundful]

Jordan something about your lectures just helps solidify knowledge into real life. Sometimes in the day I'll find myself thinking something like "oh he's just low on agreeableness, nothing to worry about".
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