[Image] The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.Submitted by crm_expert t3_112v6ah in GetMotivated
genuinely_insincere t1_j8n2w8s wrote
Reply to comment by killstimehere in [Image] The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you. by crm_expert
He's the father of modern psychology. What more do you want before you admit that something is a deep thought? Is there any such thing as a deep thought?
Ed_Hastings t1_j8ozf8n wrote
Being the father of a field isn’t the same thing as having ideas that are credible by modern standards. Obviously not everything he wrote is incorrect, but you can’t just take it as wholesale credible either.
genuinely_insincere t1_j8vbfik wrote
No that's true but you also can't just say it's not deep. Like what would possibly be the standard of a deep thought then? If he's the father of psychology he's probably going to have some deep thoughts.
pontuskompis t1_j8nq1yw wrote
Is he though? Didn't he work with psychoanalysis?
genuinely_insincere t1_j8vc5ew wrote
And he also invented mbti or what eventually became mbti. Which is a flawed personality theory.
But I would say that's similar to how boomers are with technology. Some of them invented computers. And now you have gen Z who are able to probably develop new forms of Technology based on computers.
So nowadays we are constantly learning new things about our brains and our minds. And Carl Jung was one of the first to start looking at that.
I'm not saying he's an infallible genius I was just kind of joking on that guy because they said this isn't a deep thought and it's like okay at what point is it a deep thought? He's the father of psychology I'm sure he's going to have some deep thoughts.
killstimehere t1_j8nb61f wrote
He could also have been the Jordan Peterson of his time. We just don't have enough to go on. I've heard some wise shit he's said
rock_gremlin t1_j8ocfom wrote
Are you ... comparing Carl Jung to Jordan Peterson 😭😭
genuinely_insincere t1_j8vd9cj wrote
For some reason people are really defensive against my comment here
Honestly this subreddit is kind of garbage. I don't know why. It's like, on every post there's a million people arguing against it. Like why did they join or subscribe to a get motivated subreddit if they're going to argue against every post that's about motivation?
I guess I'm being rude but they're kind of asking for it
rock_gremlin t1_j8vmymr wrote
Oh yeah it's fully garbage. I'm fr gunna bounce from it soon lol. People expect to be able to find life's meaning in a single quote without actually researching the history of the person who said it or their beliefs. It's a sentence for crying out loud. If you don't know the context you probably aren't going to glean anything from it lmao, especially when it comes from complex thinkers like psychologists. And yet here we have all these folks (who don't even seem to know who Carl Jung is or what his incredible contributions were) saying he's spewing bullshit just because they don't understand the quote at face value. sigh
WriterVAgentleman t1_j8owq8q wrote
We have a lot to go on. He was an extremely prolific writer. If you were to buy all of his books it'd add up to ~10,000 pages.
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