52 Living Ideas

Next new exciting presentation on Neuroscience by Sanjay

Living with uncertainty can be challenging. In this month's 'Design Your Life' meeting, we will explore how to embrace uncertainty as a normal part of life, focusing on psychological strategies such as mindfulness and emotional intelligence to manage our reactions to change. We'll discuss how identifying small areas of control and participating in activities that positively impact the world can enhance resilience and lay a foundation for handling unpredictability effectively.

Additionally, we will briefly discuss the high-level concepts how a professional poker player exemplifies decision-making and risk-taking through a probabilistic lens. He advocates for embracing uncertainty and risk as strategies for personal growth and resilience. His poker analogy highlights the importance of taking calculated risks and accepting the outcomes, promoting a mindset that not only prepares us for uncertainty but also actively engages with it to drive self-actualization.

Living with uncertainty: How to accept and be more comfortable with unpredictability
https://news.stanford.edu/report/2020/11/04/living-with-uncertainty/

Dealing with uncertainty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKy26jP7jUc

Many of us are familiar with Jung's model of the four functions (thinking, intuition, sensation, and feeling) and his two attitudes (extraversion and introversion), but these concepts are only one aspect of his ideas about the personality. For Jung, the personality included other important aspects: body, instincts, complexes, shadow, anima/animus, the Self, and other archetypal material.

We will lean into this breadth of material to gain a wider perspective of Jung's theory of personality, by drawing on his own writings and his own pictorial depictions of the psyche. Our session will include a brief overview of the functions/attitudes, an exploration of ego, shadow, anima/animus, and Self (and their interrelationship), and the concepts of instincts, complexes, and archetypes.

No prior knowledge is necessary! The only prerequisite is curiosity :)

You will leave our session with a strong foundational understanding of the structure and dynamics of Jung's theory of personality. And I will include resources for further explorations on many of the topics covered as well.

Hope to see you there!,

-Aiden