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The Polish researcher Małgorzata Puchalska-Wasyl asked people to describe the characters they heard in their head. She found that people commonly named four types of inner voices: the Faithful Friend (who tells you about your personal strengths), the Ambivalent Parent (who offers caring criticism), the Proud Rival (who badgers you to be more successful), and the Helpless Child (who has a lot of self-pity).

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You can know what to do next only if you know what story you are a part of. And you can endure present pains only if you can see them as part of a bigger journey unfolding.

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They tell him that no one has ever asked them about their life story before

Apparently we live in a society in which people don’t get to tell their stories.

We work and live around people for years without ever knowing their tales.

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“only when developmental ‘self-ishness’ has been achieved are we reliably capable of giving the self away.”

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Low Extroversion

High Conscientiousness

Medium Neuroticism

High Agreeableness

Medium Openess

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people often took more pleasure from sharing information about themselves than from receiving money.

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“Tell me about a time you adapted to change.”

“What’s working really well in your life?”

“What are you most self-confident about?”

“Which of your five senses is strongest?”

“Have you ever been solitary without feeling lonely?” or

“What has become clearer to you as you have aged?”

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“I’d much rather have one great person to talk to every night than have several pointless conversations with temporary people.”

— Unknown

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The Parca and The Angel of Death

Gustave Moreau

oil on canvas, 1890

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Study of Helen painted by Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898)

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What is it something you are trying to do your best at?

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Hope for one day that I will be free of my egotism, anxiety and resentment

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I wonder what it would be like to believe the sorts of things I didn’t believe

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People watching becomes souls appreciating

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Cant use normal language to answer questions like: ‘what is beauty?’

Maybe one can give examples in response to the question. But its not expansive enough

It the limits of language

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He was arguing for a morality based on integrity, on being true to oneself, one’s impulses – a morality that came from inside one’s self rather than one imposed from outside by rules, principles and duties.

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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.’