How to Develop a "Mind" at Each Age - Psychological Types

Ever... at some point in our lives, we feel like "ourselves have changed."

Things that used to be good began to get uncomfortable. Things that never cared came back to attract.

The basic personality is the same, but the needs inside are not the same.

In Psychological Types (1921), Jung didn't just say about "what kind of people are we?"

But he goes deeper to the more important question:

How should humans develop their "mind" at each age?

Jung views personality as a "growth process," not a label.

For Jung, personality is not a dead thing.

It is a structure that is gradually activated by life.

We are not born with a balanced use of every function.

We usually start with "the best thing."

And then life will gradually force us to learn the non-dominant side - age, experience.

Early Life: Adaptation Phase

In childhood to early working age.

Our minds often use the Dominant Function as the core.

• Introvert will develop inner thought, self-understanding.

• Extravert will develop external world skills, clashes, communication.

• Thinking people practice reason, structure, authenticity.

• Feeling people practice relationships, values, decency.

• Sensation will hold the present, the truth, the tangible.

• Intuition will look to the future, possibility, meaning.

We often ask that

"How can I survive in this world?"

"What kind should I be to be accepted?"

So this development is the creation of identity.

And this is why many people feel that

"I have to be as good at this side as I can."

Midlife: The Crisis of Non-Failure (Midlife Transition)

Jung sees the midlife crisis as not a problem.

But it is a sign that the mind demands another stage of development.

Things that used to work well didn't get enough.

External success. Start not answering internal questions.

The Inferior Function starts to sound.

• Thinking people may start to feel empty, like they lack meaning.

• Feeling people may start to confuse themselves with their own direction of life.

• Sensation people may start asking about the "meaning" of what they do.

• Intuition people may feel lost, wanting to come back and touch the truth.

This is not a retreat.

But is the beginning of what Jung calls

Individuation - being yourself in its entirety.

Back Age: Integration Phase

When through a clash with the shadows in mid-life,

People who develop will start to "combine" different functions.

Doesn't mean

Introvert will become Extravert.

Or Thinking will become Feeling.

But means

• Introvert dares to appear more in the world.

• Extravert dares to listen to the inner voice more.

• Thinking begins to give space to the heart.

• Feeling begins to reason to take care of himself.

• Sensation is present with meaning.

• Intuition connects vision to truth.

During this time, life questions change.

"How can I spend the rest of my life meaningfully?"

Not to prove yourself.

But to be honest with yourself,

What Jung wants to tell about "growing up with age"

The problem is not of any kind of personality.

It's caused by being mentally trapped at a certain age.

• People who have spent their entire early life → Tired, never finished competing

• People fleeing the middle age crisis → lost, empty

• People who listen to change → grow deeper and calm.

Development is not leaving the same identity.

But to add dimensions to the original self.

The book therefore does not ask, "What type are you?"

But ask

• Are you using too many minds now?

• What part of you is undeveloped?

• What functions are life inviting you to learn through events?

Summary

Psychological Types are books that view personality as a "life path."

Not a test.

It makes us understand that

Change with age is not getting lost.

But to be called to "grow up."

And when we stop asking,

"Who Should I Be?"

Then turned to ask

"What is life teaching me now?"

Self-improvement will not be the pressure.

But it becomes a meaningful journey.

At the pace of our own age.

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