Are you, your child or someone you know easily distracted, absent minded, head in the clouds, always looking out of the window daydreaming? If so, there is some scientific research that suggests daydreamers and those who suffer with mind wandering could be more intelligent than the average person. Psychologists and researches that have studied this…
Elon Musk personality type, using the Big Five Traits, or Five Factor Model (FFM), and his MBTI type, plus other relevant psychology. Elon Musk is an interesting character, somewhat eccentric, perhaps slightly socially awkward but obviously very intelligent, and a highly gifted engineer. Many people seem to love speculating about his personality, why he is…
This article is mostly about using psychology and philosophy to improve and evolve the human species, genuinely being progressive. As-well as psychology it also includes other forms of knowledge and understandings. The types of societal improvements I’m talking about are, reducing conflicts, prejudices and divisions between groups of people in-order to actually progress humanity. Learning…
How does a pandemic like the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) affect people’s psychology, general attitudes and motivations? When difficult times arise you often get to see people’s true nature, both the good, and the bad. We all have survival instincts including fight or flight responses, these instincts kick in to overdrive when such an event like…
This article is a basic look into dream analysis. It will mainly be covering the work and findings on dream analysis by Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung. Plus I will be adding some of my own interpretations and views into the meanings of dreams. Sigmund Freud Freud analysed what he called manifest content (what the…
Almost everyone seems to be searching for comfort, contentment and happiness in their lives, but when achieved, does it breed mediocrity, or perhaps something worse? Many people would of heard the quote “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters”. I can say from personal experience that when I have been the most content in life,…
You may be aware of alpha and beta males, but perhaps not a Sigma male. So what is a Sigma male, what is the definition, and what personality traits do they have? Perhaps you are trying to figure out if you are one of them. The Alpha and Beta males are part of the status…
What is The Joker’s personality type? using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the big five traits, and the concept of the shadow from Jungian psychology. Plus other motivations and societal and social causes. (Warning Spoilers) The new Joker movie provides a lot of back story to the creation of the super villain, Batman’s most…
What are the motivations of the climate change protesters (extinction rebellion), looking into the psychology, personality traits, plus what’s really going on inside their distorted minds? On the surface their motivations seem obvious, virtuous and for a good cause. Do these people really think their motivations are pure, selfless and for a good cause? Yes,…
What combination of personality traits on the big five aspects scale potentially creates the most difficult personality type to deal with, and generally those that will have the most difficult lives? High in Trait Neuroticism This is the most obvious one. Being high in trait neuroticism is to generally suffer with more negative emotion than…