If You Know Nothing About Personality: 18 Write Your Theory

You've read a lot of theories in psychology. You have ideas of what makes people tick. It's time to write your own theory of psychology! Or you could start a bit smaller with your theory of personality. I wrote one. You can too. It's just putting your thoughts down on paper. In this video, Dr. Ken Tangen gives you some hints of what to include in your theory.

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[khuggf]

Don't we all already write are own theory of life ?

Or does life write our story ?

[barbar69]

I wish there were more accessible educational videos like this on Youtube.

Thank you for posting them.

[FireweedFarm]

I think this is a great idea!

And yes, people usually will not change. This is a key in Lucinda Bassett's program on anxiety. You'll have a lot more anxiety if you typically expect people in response to feedback from you, when they usually won't, you'll have a lot of anxiety. But yes, people can change dramatically. I've been reading Irvin Yalom's book on group psychotherapy. The examples illustrate the challenge. Pp. 153-157 concisely illustrate a key part of his method of change.