Happy New Year Outliers! As we bid farewell to the year gone by and welcome 2024 with open arms, it’s a time ripe for reflection, renewal, and setting intentions for the path ahead. At the School of Outliers, we’re excited to embark on this journey with you, guided by the...

Addiction is often portrayed in popular culture as a sinister character clinging to the backs of those suffering from substance abuse. However, the canvas of addiction is vast, expansive, and not limited to just the habits we've come to commonly associate it with. It's time we recognize that...

The journey towards personal growth is a transformative voyage that transverses the consciousness of the mind from a state of one-sidedness to the pursuit of wholeness. This transformation process is intricately woven into the fabric of the eight cognitive processes. Understanding these processes...

Embarking on the journey of self-discovery and personal development requires a deep understanding of the various cognitive processes that shape our everyday decisions and interactions. Carl Jung's theory of personality, often referred to as analytical psychology, offers invaluable insights into...

Building upon our understanding of Carl Jung's cognitive processes and attitudes of Extraversion and Introversion, it's time to journey further into the profound depth of Jungian typology. This exploration takes us towards the refined map of human personality known as the Myers-Briggs Type...

In our previous exploration of Carl Jung's theories, we dove deep into the eight cognitive processes and the roles played by the attitudes of Extraversion and Introversion. Now, let's embark on a new journey: applying this knowledge for personal growth, self-improvement, and enhancing our...

Our journey to understanding the enigmatic labyrinth of the human mind continues. Building upon our exploration of Carl Jung's four mental functions, we will dI’ve deeper into the realm of cognitive processes and the crucial roles played by the attitudes of Extraversion and...

Discovering the mysteries of the mind and understanding how we perceive and interact with the world around us has been a lifelong quest for many philosophers, scientists, and psychologists. One of the significant contributors in this arena was Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, whose work...

Toxic People are our Shadows reflected back at us. . . 

Shame is a consequence of the negation of the realities of both self and self. - David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Imagine if you walked into my therapy office full of pain and shame. You finally worked up the courage to reach out to...

We all have mental schemas.

These represent the filter through which we interpret the world around us, which we call the "situation". But in truth, schemas thrive in our interpretations of situations. It is our schemas that create and confirm our worldviews. 

Schemas are mental...

I wept today . . .

Our brains are incredible. We are born with the ability to take in information from our environment, and organize it into a framework of understanding with the main objective of keeping us safe. We can think of this as our Life Story, or our “Algorithm”.

The Algorithm develops from...