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I just watched a video on big think about creating a commonplace book during overwhelming times where we can create, organize, distill, and express ourselves to release and free up mental energy for greater creative expression. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Christian and Molly talk about the Mission: Joy documentary which covers a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu about Joy. We also talk about commitment and devotion to goodness, truth, and beauty as well as developing wellness as a skill. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Sharing some thoughts on needing to give myself more Fe in my life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Why are uncomfortable thoughts important? How do they allow us to navigate our personal growth? And how can we become better champions of introverted thinking? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

What does it mean to review your source code as an INTP? How can we better champion our dominant function of Introverted Thinking?  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

I'm in a place where I'm learning that I've ignored the helpfulness of Extraverted Thinking in my life. I've played more of a lone wolf role, rejected hierarchical structures, refused to play office politics, and have had difficulties in building a team. I've never liked feeling like I'm a human resource but I've also treated myself like one. In this episode, I share this relationship to hierarchy, and extraverted thinking, and talk about what it would mean to build my own Starship Enterprise. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Today I want to share some of my thoughts on recent revelations around my relationship to helping and being helped. Namely, a better use of Extraverted Thinking (Te) is required in my life to begin a process of outsourcing and talent-scouting with some of the ambitious projects I and my clients want to take on. I'm reaching certain limits of what I can handle and it's affecting my health, relationships, use of time, and money. So, this is the beginning of a major adjustment for me.  What about you? What's your relationship to help? Productivity Course for INTPs: https://dopeamine.teachable.com/p/the-intp-productivity-workshop --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Today I'm talking about toxic fame and career transcendence. How can we break away from the noise of social media? What does it look like to get rid of a career I'm so used to? What kind of leap does it require? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Today I'm sharing a quick differentiation between avatars and archetypes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Today on the podcast we're talking about the drama triangle and empowerment dynamic. I've heard the phrase "my villain era" over and over but is that a healthy way to integrate assertiveness? I share some of my story around my villain era, being a goth kid, and adjustments I'm making. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

There's a great idealism and Identity crash coming for millennials. The major battle to change the world will be met with a stark reality that we can't change everything and everyone. Millennials have been fed this idea that we can should be anything we want, which isn't going to work out. But even so, we can get started now in moving towards acceptance on a personal level to have a greater actual impact on our and other's lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

If you've heard of the golden rule and the platinum rule then I'd like to introduce the Diamond Rule and play with this idea for a bit. I talk about how the Enneagram is useful for reverse engineering what someone needs and is experiencing on the inside. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Today on happy Chemicals I'm playing with the idea of using your Myers-Briggs subtype to suggest that there is a wealth building trajectory for that type. Which one are you? And do you resonate with that direction? Does it excite you? Let me know! 😎 🤘🏽 💜 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

This is a rollercoaster of an episode talking about what I believe is the religion-izing of the previous generational Awakening or new age spiritualism. I explore some of my own cynicism around that and the relationship to cultural events in the US and world events emerging via some of the patterns share in Spiral Dynamics and generational theory. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

I was recently reminded of how late insane Asylums existed into the 20th century and how they must very much play a part in the zeitgeist of mental health awareness and resistance to emerging systems. This episode plays with what that could mean for the deeper programming of fear within myself and older generations who are apprehensive of the emerging mental health marketplace. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Today I'm talking about the importance of being where you are and the necessities of each level of developmental through whichever developmental spiral you're getting to know. I reference the work of Dr. Keith Witt and Jeff Salzmann on The Daily Evolver and their episode about the three types of suffering. I also talk about personality disorders and one-sidedness stuckness in our development. Courses at happychemicals.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Dr. Helen Fisher and Dr. Dario Nardi are making some interesting connections between chemicals hormone, brain scans and Myers-Briggs Personality Subtypes. For me, this is opening up a doorway of accepting aspects of myself that I've been pushing down and operating within unhealthy ways. So today I'm breaking down Oxytocin, testosterone, Dopamine, and Serotonin as it relates to the dominant, harmonizing, creative and normalizing personality subtypes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

I think of each cognitive function for the INTP as a battery that can be utilized and also needs recharging. Each battery affects the other batteries and also batteries can be overheated if not used or unplugged. In this episode I go over a leverage point word for each cognitive function that help signal when an INTP needs recharging in each area and how this could even help an INTP get out of the darkest depressive depths. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

Welcome back to Happy Chemicals. Today we're talking about shadows, what it means relative to ego and persona and Developmental levels. When to do shadow work. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message

What brings you balance in your chemical reactions? Do you see a connection with your Enneagram Instincts? Courses at happychemicals.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/happychemicals/message