It would be immeasurably easier to manage ourselves and set and achieve objectives, and relate to others, and for other to relate and connect to us, if this were not the case. If we thought, felt, responded and behaved in exactly the same way through all circumstances and at all times.
But unfortunately it's just not true.
Given a brutally demanding context, like existence in the wilderness where all ones energy goes into physically surviving, these more subtle shifts in personality and intelligence go unnoticed.
Because there are bigger fish to fry … like staying alive.
And although the world may seem to be in chaos, we have never in the history of humanity had it so easy and so good. And since our physical survival [especially in the more developed countries] is rarely in question, we come to notice these more subtle variations in how we think and react from situation to situation and context to context.
And subtle does not mean unimportant. Subtle changes in less threatening environments, where fundamental physical survival issues are not on the table, make for big changes in behaviour and for vastly differing outcomes.
Our psychology is sophisticated and complex and made more so because these [sub] internal psychological systems interact and influence each other, and the systems of others. Much like sub systems within the planetary echo system affecting and influencing each other -- tornadoes, floods, tsunamis are all consequences of systems affecting and influencing each other.
Our overall intelligence is actually made up of multiple strands or lines of intelligence including, cognitive (IQ), emotional (EQ), spiritual (SQ), moral (MQ), feelings, values, needs, psycho-sexual and kinaesthetic (to name a few), each developing through very distinct stages and expressing themselves through one of two core logics, the masculine and feminine.
Personalities and sub personalities are woven around core and often conflicting assertions, assumptions, beliefs, values and prior psychological traumas -- just like our bones and skin scars as a result of trauma, so too does our psyche.
It can initially seem overwhelming, in much the same way that the challenges of climate change and global warming, political instability, terrorism, financial, money and banking systems can be overwhelming in their complexity and inter-relatedness.
But I would assert, if I had to make a choice, that our personal psychological development and mastery is more important. Because it's that level of mastery that will ultimately determine our ability to successfully negotiate our individual, cultural and global ability to move forward and resolve challenges.
It also fundamentally affects and enables [or disables] our ability to live, love, earn a buck and make a difference in a changing world.
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