Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (TED Books)

Action: A project is not a passive response to external forces but an intentional sequence of behavior.

These dynamic features are what I call the personal contexts of your life.

there are various ways you can shape your closest social environment to support your projects.

A sense of project meaning rests on how important the project is to you—how consistent with your core values it is and how self-expressive it is (that it really feels like you).

most important aspect of manageability, however, is your sense of efficacy—the expectation that your projects are going to be successful.

The latter are how you personally view and interact with that context:

Personally salient: By salient I mean that a person identifies a course of action as standing out from all the other possibilities that might be pursued.

It’s important to understand how restorative niches work because, when we act out of character, our environments might afford us the opportunity to return to our “natural” state.

Why, on the one hand, is an intrapersonal project associated with negative emotions and vulnerability, and on the other, is seen as a creative adventure? It is likely due to the origin of the self-focused project.