Sublime

Le schéma de personnalité le plus utile que j’ai trouvé pour m’aider à comprendre ce qui motive les gens est celui décrit par Barondes dans son livre. Il s’appelle « Big Five » ou OCEAN : ouvert d’esprit, consciencieux, extraverti, agréable, névrosé. Les chercheurs qui ont mis ce schéma au point ont choisi des adjectifs qui pourraient être utilisés

a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others – are also shared by politicians and world leaders.

The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we have opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.

One of the most salient psychological characteristics of those who choose professional careers is a strong need for autonomy. People choose professions (rather than, say, corporate careers) because the work is not routine or rigidly structured. Thus, the professions have more than their share of people with an aversion to taking directions.

Ben-Nun Bloom indicates that popular measures of values and morality have a common genetic basis.

Berne labeled networks that develop early in life as Child ego states. When we activate one of these, we act like the child we once were. Networks which represent the internalization of the people who raised us, as we experienced them, Berne named Parent. When in Parent we think, feel, and act like one of our parents or like someone who took their

bridge of the nose) has been associated with negativity and neuroticism.

Thrill and Adventure Seeking (TAS, indexing activities such as sky-diving and mountain climbing), Disinhibition (DIS, indexing behaviours like drug and alcohol abuse, vandalism or unsafe sex), Experience Seeking (ES, indexing travel, psychedelic drugs and music) and Boredom Susceptibility (BS, indexing proneness to boredom and the need to be doing