The Western White Male Personality Is Maladaptive

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Asked him for elaboration.

All the upper class asians described their manner of thinking and solving problems in ways that only one US native, a graduate student in painting, had—a high degree of awareness of internal sensory processes.
I think we need an elaboration on the elaboration lol
 
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Hugh, I think you're viewing being "vulnerable" as honest. Men aren't naturally vulnerable. They were designed to be a protector
Where did you get that word? I did not use it.

Also, only the strong can afford to be vulnerable because they know they are safe and can defend themselves. The weak are defensive, constantly hiding and expecting an attack.
 

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I am not even sure what disadaptive means...man once you see the Marx in Peat, it is really hard to unsee. ugh
 

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8/10 for me too. 9 and 7 were my errors

I can't remember wchich other one I got wrong lol I took the test at work when I shouldn't have haha so I only glanced at which I got right and wrong before I had to put my phone away lol
 

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I am not even sure what disadaptive means...man once you see the Marx in Peat, it is really hard to unsee. ugh

Haha I was thinking the same thing but you said it better. It's like the people arguing with Badger's sources don't realize they're on the Ray Peat forum...
 

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@AJC this study shows what I'm talking about somewhat:

Correlation Between Personality Traits and Testosterone Concentrations in Healthy Population

The fact that they found males with high T more likely to abuse drugs shows that they're always seeking that dopamine release, the reward (phenomena) seeking behavior. Though, this isn't necessarily good, when you understand why you can instead seek other things more conducive to a healthy life that are rewarding. Probably also the reason young men tend to develop porn addictions.

Thanks man, I've worked with some addicts first hand and you can see the inner-potential in a lot of them and it's just a matter of helping them find that healthy outlet for its expression. It's like--be addicted to drugs or be addicted to "success"? Choice is yours homie
 

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Thanks man, I've worked with some addicts first hand and you can see the inner-potential in a lot of them and it's just a matter of helping them find that healthy outlet for its expression. It's like--be addicted to drugs or be addicted to "success"? Choice is yours homie

Oh wow, what do you do if I may ask? (Haha you're the first I've seen to use 'homie' other than me here lol)

I'm sure that's also why men are very single focused driven, and women are better at multitasking (speaking in general. Of course there's always examples of people on either side exemplifying the opposite gender's task oriented strengths)
 
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Further response from Peat (the first phrase is probably about the questionnaire, which I asked for) :

I doubt that it still exists. The common absence of internal imagery has been discussed many times since then. When I taught a beginning college drawing class, I was surprised at the number of people who said they had no internal visual imagery. Tests of motion afterimages (a rotating archimedes spiral) showed that most people’s motion afterimage didn’t decay while their eyes were closed for the normal decay duration, and then persisted for the normal period when they opened their eyes. Those customarily having internal imagery experienced the reverse motion during the period that their eyes were closed, and then none when they opened their eyes.
 
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Im not sure if the western man is too adaptive or not enough, this video is hilarious.

 

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but assertiveness is different than aggressiveness, idk ray still thinks the same?!

i think ray himself is assertive , he didnt accept many mainstream views!
 

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