Solomon Thomas

Why Listening Is So Important open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #psychology #culture #philosophy #carljung #carlrogers #existentialism #relationshipadvice #selfimprovement #personality #personalitydevelopment #selfdevelopment #understanding #attention #cognition #emotions #psyche #science

“If two or more people are locked in conflict, it is because the ways they specify their attention differ – and, sometimes, at a profound level.” - Jordan Peterson New essay on attention, values, and relationships. open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #relationshipadvice #jordanpeterson

Psychology and Marriage: An Introduction open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj…

“If there is one thing psychology teaches us it is to distrust unaided memory and self-justifying introspections.” - Hans Eysenck New essay on a better way of thinking about complex issues. open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #politics #psychology #culture #dialogue #HansEysenck #CarlJung

"Materialism is a weak flame blown out by the breath of mature thinking." - Martin Luther King Jr. New essay on the importance of personal responsibility and the pursuit of meaning. open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #psychology #meaning #responsibility #MLK #culture #personality

“When anything goes, it’s women who lose.” - #CamillePaglia “Whenever relativism is taken as a fundamental and final principle it has a destructive effect.” - #CarlJung New essay on ideals, moral relativism, masculinity, and femininity. open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #psychology

We can keep sliding toward one extreme or the other and call it progress. Or we can live in the creative tension between order and chaos—and move forward with the least possible needless suffering. Full essay (nicer formatting): open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj…

In grad school someone asked: “Should parents have the same values when raising kids?” Most of the class said no. My immediate thought: “So if one parent wants to beat the kid and the other doesn't, that will turn out just fine?” That’s where radical open-mindedness ends.

Disciplined Freedom: The Balance Our Culture Forgot “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” — Carl Jung Pure discipline → tyranny. Pure freedom → chaos. Life only works in the tension between order and chaos.

"It is perhaps of ourselves that we have the least command. There are crowds of things which operate within ourselves without our will." - Pierre Janet A new essay on human values and motivation. open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #carljung #pierrejanet #psychology #motivation #psyche

“He who loses his ties with his earth also loses his gods, that is, all his goals.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky New essay on the reality of nihilism. open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #Dostoevsky #Nihilism #Philosophy #Literature #Books #Existentialism #Meaning #Purpose #SpiritualCrisis #Trad

The Underground Man “Man is so partial to systems and abstract deduction that in order to justify his logic he is prepared to distort the truth intentionally.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #psychology #philosophy #existentialism #fyodordostoevsky #carljung

Atticus's Conscience “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” - Atticus Finch open.substack.com/pub/imperfectj… #personalityimprovement #psychology #personalitydevelopment #psyche #philosophy #carljung #harperlee #tokillamockingbird #substack #writer

“Man is so partial to systems and abstract deduction that in order to justify his logic he is prepared to distort the truth intentionally.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky #philosophy #fyodordostoyevsky #existentialism #psychology #personality #personalityimprovement #personalitydevelopment

“The direct, immediate, legitimate fruit of heightened consciousness is inertia, that is, the deliberate refusal to do anything.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky #existentialism #philosophy #psychology #Consciousness #personality #fyodordostoyevsky #personalitydevelopment #intelligence