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Third Natures: How What You Do Shapes Who You Are: Cărți TED / TED Books

Autor Brian Little
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 noi 2016
This fun, smart read for anyone eager to better understand (and improve) themselves argues that personality is driven not by nature nor nurture--but instead by the projects we pursue, which ultimately shape the people we become.
Traditionally, scientists have emphasized what they call the first and second natures of personality--genes and culture, respectively. But today the field of personality science has moved well beyond the nature vs. nurture debate. In Who Are You, Really? Dr. Brian Little presents a distinctive view of how personality shapes our lives--and why this matters. Little makes the case for a third nature to the human condition--the pursuit of personal projects, idealistic dreams, and creative ventures that shape both people's lives and their personalities. Little uncovers what personality science has been discovering about the role of personal projects, revealing how this new concept can help people better understand themselves and shape their lives.
In this important work, Little argues that it is essential to devote energy and resources to creative endeavors in a highly focused fashion, even if it takes away from other components of our well-being. This does not mean that we cannot shift from one core project to another in the days of our lives. In fact, it is precisely that ability to flexibly craft projects that is the greatest source of sustainability. Like learning to walk, forcing ourselves out of balance as we step is the only way in which we can move forward. And it is the only way that human flourishing can be enhanced.
The well-lived life is based on the sustainable pursuit of core projects in our lives. Ultimately, Who Are You, Really? provides a deeply personal itinerary for exploring our personalities, our lives, and the human condition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501119965
ISBN-10: 1501119966
Pagini: 120
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Simon & Schuster/ Ted
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Descriere

Third Natures presents a distinctive view of how personality shapes our lives - and why this matters. Conventional accounts of personality emphasize the natural sources of personality (e.g. genes, biochemistry) and societal sources (e.g. cultural codes) - first and second natures. But the field of personality science has moved well beyond the nature vs. nurture debate. Little makes the case for a third nature to the human condition - the pursuit of personal projects, crazy dreams and creative ventures that shape both people's lives and their personalities. Little uncovers what personality science has been discovering about the role of personal projects, revealing how this new concept can help people better understand themselves and shape their lives. Stable traits of personality (now identified as the "Big Five": openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism) have important links with well-being, both psychological and physical. But in contrast with these fixed traits of personality there are what Little identifies as "free traits." These are traits that run counter to one's first nature. Why do we engage in free trait behavior? We do so to advance core personal projects in our lives; we can act out of character because of the demands of professionalism or the imperatives of love. The personal ecology of human transactions requires us occasionally to be out of balance. Like learning to walk, forcing ourselves out of balance as we step forward may be temporarily disconcerting. But it is the only way, literally, in which we can move forward. And it is the only way that human flourishing can be enhanced. The well-lived life is based on the sustainable pursuit of core projects in our lives, and ultimately, this book provides a deeply personal itinerary for exploring our personalities, our lives and the human condition.

Notă biografică

Dr. Brian Little is an internationally acclaimed scholar and speaker in the field of personality and motivational psychology. He is a Fellow of the Well-Being Institute and Director of the Social Ecology Research Group in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University. Previously, he taught at McGill, Oxford, and Harvard Universities. Dividing his time between Canada and the UK, Dr. Little is also a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa, and he lectures worldwide on personality, motivation, and well-being. Who Are You, Really? is his third book.