Re-Modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance starts with a challenging proposition: what if human Personality is best understood by looking first at nature and animals? We know that nature\'s systems are self-balancing, and we know that insects, animals, birds, and insects are born knowing things.
Conscience: is yours warm or cool? does it match those closest to you, or are you stuck in irreconcilable arguments where each of you is sure the other is utterly wrong?Worldview: does your Personality see life more like Film Noir or Hollywood Classic? Or more like an action thriller or science fiction? How does that alter the way you size up decisions and situations? What does it say about your attention span or tolerance for stimulation?Balance: is your Personality balanced among it.
And much more.
This shift in meaning alters the way we see conscience, learning, and ability to change. "Introversion" means being tied to innate animal-like templates of safety and danger, not preferring to be alone.
However, while the types are recognizably the same, the new model presents different reasons for why they exist, what they mean, and how they work.
The book uses Carl Jung\'s framework for outlining how the mind takes in and organizes information, and it also uses the Myers-Briggs Personality types that many readers are familiar with. "Re-Modeling" means both creating a new model for how we think about personality, and using it to improve the way we manage our own personalities.
From all this emerges the predictable patterns we call personality.
Like a natural system, the brain seeks efficiency, which means the right Balance between habit and chaos.
Our brains are also part of the natural world and some of its physical laws apply.
Unlike animals, our templates of safety and danger are primarily about how to stay safe from each other, since we are our own greatest predators.
Like animals, we carry templates of safety and danger that are inborn---hard-wired---in a very rough outline.
Re-Modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance starts with a challenging proposition: what if human Personality is best understood by looking first at nature and animals? We know that nature\'s systems are self-balancing, and we know that insects, animals, birds, and insects are born knowing things
