New Scientist article about tracking conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion in people from age 21 onward. Via Garret's ever-interesting Dangerousmeta, which has two follow up works, Hillman's The Soul's Code (reviewed here) and The Force of Character (reviewed here , w/ link to author interview). Hmmmm... : ) Thanks for the recommendation, Garret
a quote from the interview with Hillman:
Yes. I said in the chapter [of The Soul's Code] called "The Parental Fallacy" that there’s no myth that holds our culture more firmly in its grip than that you are the result of your parent’s conditioning, just as you are the result of their bodies. That so permeates our thinking that we forget that our "calling" may have a completely different source. The soul may be responsible to a calling that is not only biological—your parents—or environmental. That’s that we have lost, that third thing. We have biology, or nature. We have environment, or nurture, parents and all the socio-economic things. But we forget that the soul, somehow, has a third aspect. It has its own ancestors, which may not be your own actual , physical ancestors. They are the ancestors that other people in other cultures have honored, but that we don’t even recognize in our own society.
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