This Jungian Life, FOMO, TikTok

Podcast appearance + links and recommendations

Here is my recent appearance on This Jungian Life.

We spoke about Jungian psychology, status symbols, the hero’s journey, my recent visit to Carl Jung’s house in Switzerland, Troubled, and much more. Speaking about my book with 3 experienced Jungian analysts was a truly unique experience.

Links for Spotify and Apple Podcast.

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From the archives

You’re Probably Not the Person I’m Judging: Divorce, hookup culture, and elites

You’re Probably Not the Person I’m Judging

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Links and recommendations

• The Rise of Neotoddlerism by Gurwinder

• Maybe You're Just Not Smart by Cremieux

• Nothing beats a 1980s brick phone by Rory Sutherland

• The New Girl Disorder by Kay S. Hymowitz

• What Happened to FOMO? by Freya India

• Female Sexuality is Socially Constructed by Richard Hanania

  • One of the more fascinating aspects of romantic attraction is how the exact same person can be perceived as more or less physically attractive based on their wealth, status, reputation, and so on. This applies more so to how women view men than vice versa. When I was a kid, around 2000 or 2001, my teenage stepsister (one of Shelly’s daughters, for those of you who read my book) and I were listening to NSYNC on the radio and she announced that she was mystified at how her friends thought Justin Timberlake was so hot, and went on to say that if Justin Timberlake looked the same but was just a regular dude working at a Nike store, girls wouldn’t think he was particularly attractive

• Follow me on Instagram here. The platform is less volatile and more chill than Twitter/X, so I post some spicier excerpts from my readings on my IG stories

• You can follow me on TikTok here

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Three interesting findings

1. Men who cry at work are perceived as more emotional and less competent than women who cry at work. When men cried in response to feedback, the feedback provider rated them as a lower performer, less likely to get promoted, and less capable than women who cried. (source).

2. Maternal supportiveness at age five, as judged by several trained independent raters observing mother-child interactions, predicted IQ scores at ages 11 and 18. Maternal supportiveness predicted intelligence and continued to do so throughout childhood. (source).

3. 20% of the population is responsible for:

•100% of criminal convictions

•99% of government benefits received

•84% of cigarettes smoked

•83% of credit card debt

•78% of all injuries

•67% of fast food consumption

•53% of all alcohol consumption

•47% of all sex partners

Obviously not the same 20%, though my guess is that there is a lot of overlap. Source.