The Social Personality System™

Depresculinity - Class 6 - Lesson 1

Education and training in a new kind of personality system based on that of an ancient physician and philosopher, Galen, but applied through the prism of today’s cognitive science research. There are many types of personality typing systems, from the esoteric (Enneagram) to the impractical (MBTI), to the purely data-driven (The Big 5). Formerly called KWML for the four types of personality within it, the Social Personality System™ has both a practical theoretical basis for its working parts, but also support from the research data of cognitive science. What's more—rather than being about you as an individual in isolation, it's about the bonding and social magnetism formed in specific pairings of best friends. With a focus on the development of richer connection and communication between the six possible pairings between two individuals in friendship or love. This is the first of many ten-minute videos—of upwards of eight hours of instruction— for Founding Members. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe [https://masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Social Personality System™ - Class 1, Lesson 6

Welcome to a series of audios that will introduce you to a simple model of personality typing that is both useful in everyday interactions (unlike some systems such as MBTI), but is also rooted in the psychology research (unlike such systems as Enneagrams or Color Wheel models.) To date, the most robust body of knowledge on personality likely comes from the “Big Five” model, which was created by way of the mining of “big data” to look at linguistic preferences in how people communicate and see the world around them. This system, however, doesn’t operate from a "causal” perspective, or “how and why” people behave the way they do. By contrast with older models that were rooted in Freudian or Jungian theory and methodology, the Big Five derives much of its power and predictiveness from the vast amount of data used to create it. We find that the models on which such a system is based can and do matter, however, especially when it comes to seeing people’s behavior play out, live, in-person in our everyday interactions. As a result, over the past three decades we have been refining The Social Personality System™ in a way that roots it in research data but has easy terminology that informs our observations about the world around us. Past personality systems to this day, focus on the individual in terms of how they communicate, what they believe, what their consumer product choices and future, average expectable behaviors will statistically play out to be. But very little work has been done on pairings of people’s personalities such as one sees in a marriage, or in a group of friends, or in a company department or whole organization. Since personality style is a “way of doing things” rather than a commentary on specific individuals’ tastes and preferences in life, we envisioned a way to see personality psychology in a “quantum” fashion. Meaning, like a particle-wave duality may exist in physics, an individual’s uniqueness as a person may coexist with their general tendencies in a group that shares many traits in common, on a spectrum. In this way, a personality typing system may both find the usefulness and predictability of labeling “types” of personality, while also respecting the specific nuances of an individual who functions on multiple spectrums of behavioral determinants simultaneously. It’s the Social Personality System™ (originally, KWML), which is available in 1-5min tracks delivered one day at a time, for the full 5+ hours of the course (available to paid subscribers only). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe [https://masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Social Personality System™ - Class 1, Lesson 5

Welcome to a series of audios that will introduce you to a simple model of personality typing that is both useful in everyday interactions (unlike some systems such as MBTI), but is also rooted in the psychology research (unlike such systems as Enneagrams or Color Wheel models.) To date, the most robust body of knowledge on personality likely comes from the “Big Five” model, which was created by way of the mining of “big data” to look at linguistic preferences in how people communicate and see the world around them. This system, however, doesn’t operate from a "causal” perspective, or “how and why” people behave the way they do. By contrast with older models that were rooted in Freudian or Jungian theory and methodology, the Big Five derives much of its power and predictiveness from the vast amount of data used to create it. We find that the models on which such a system is based can and do matter, however, especially when it comes to seeing people’s behavior play out, live, in-person in our everyday interactions. As a result, over the past three decades we have been refining The Social Personality System™ in a way that roots it in research data but has easy terminology that informs our observations about the world around us. Past personality systems to this day, focus on the individual in terms of how they communicate, what they believe, what their consumer product choices and future, average expectable behaviors will statistically play out to be. But very little work has been done on pairings of people’s personalities such as one sees in a marriage, or in a group of friends, or in a company department or whole organization. Since personality style is a “way of doing things” rather than a commentary on specific individuals’ tastes and preferences in life, we envisioned a way to see personality psychology in a “quantum” fashion. Meaning, like a particle-wave duality may exist in physics, an individual’s uniqueness as a person may coexist with their general tendencies in a group that shares many traits in common, on a spectrum. In this way, a personality typing system may both find the usefulness and predictability of labeling “types” of personality, while also respecting the specific nuances of an individual who functions on multiple spectrums of behavioral determinants simultaneously. It’s the Social Personality System™ (originally, KWML), which is available in 1-5min tracks delivered one day at a time, for the full 5+ hours of the course (available to paid subscribers only). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe [https://masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Social Personality System™ - Class 1, Lesson 2

Welcome to a series of audios that will introduce you to a simple model of personality typing that is both useful in everyday interactions (unlike some systems such as MBTI), but is also rooted in the psychology research (unlike such systems as Enneagrams or Color Wheel models.) To date, the most robust body of knowledge on personality likely comes from the “Big Five” model, which was created by way of the mining of “big data” to look at linguistic preferences in how people communicate and see the world around them. This system, however, doesn’t operate from a "causal” perspective, or “how and why” people behave the way they do. By contrast with older models that were rooted in Freudian or Jungian theory and methodology, the Big Five derives much of its power and predictiveness from the vast amount of data used to create it. We find that the models on which such a system is based can and do matter, however, especially when it comes to seeing people’s behavior play out, live, in-person in our everyday interactions. As a result, over the past three decades we have been refining The Social Personality System™ in a way that roots it in research data but has easy terminology that informs our observations about the world around us. Past personality systems to this day, focus on the individual in terms of how they communicate, what they believe, what their consumer product choices and future, average expectable behaviors will statistically play out to be. But very little work has been done on pairings of people’s personalities such as one sees in a marriage, or in a group of friends, or in a company department or whole organization. Since personality style is a “way of doing things” rather than a commentary on specific individuals’ tastes and preferences in life, we envisioned a way to see personality psychology in a “quantum” fashion. Meaning, like a particle-wave duality may exist in physics, an individual’s uniqueness as a person may coexist with their general tendencies in a group that shares many traits in common, on a spectrum. In this way, a personality typing system may both find the usefulness and predictability of labeling “types” of personality, while also respecting the specific nuances of an individual who functions on multiple spectrums of behavioral determinants simultaneously. It’s the Social Personality System™ (originally, KWML), which is available in 1-5min tracks delivered one day at a time, for the full 5+ hours of the course (available to paid subscribers only). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe [https://masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Social Personality System™ - Class 1, Lesson 1

Welcome to a series of audios that will introduce you to a simple model of personality typing that is both useful in everyday interactions (unlike some systems such as MBTI), but is also rooted in the psychology research (unlike such systems as Enneagrams or Color Wheel models.) GO HERE TO TAKE THE FREE QUIZ: And become a member here: To date, the most robust body of knowledge on personality likely comes from the “Big Five” model, which was created by way of the mining of “big data” to look at linguistic preferences in how people communicate and see the world around them. This system, however, doesn’t operate from a "causal” perspective, or “how and why” people behave the way they do. By contrast with older models that were rooted in Freudian or Jungian theory and methodology, the Big Five derives much of its power and predictiveness from the vast amount of data used to create it. We find that the models on which such a system is based can and do matter, however, especially when it comes to seeing people’s behavior play out, live, in-person in our everyday interactions. As a result, over the past three decades we have been refining The Social Personality System™ in a way that roots it in research data but has easy terminology that informs our observations about the world around us. Past personality systems to this day, focus on the individual in terms of how they communicate, what they believe, what their consumer product choices and future, average expectable behaviors will statistically play out to be. But very little work has been done on pairings of people’s personalities such as one sees in a marriage, or in a group of friends, or in a company department or whole organization. Since personality style is a “way of doing things” rather than a commentary on specific individuals’ tastes and preferences in life, we envisioned a way to see personality psychology in a “quantum” fashion. Meaning, like a particle-wave duality may exist in physics, an individual’s uniqueness as a person may coexist with their general tendencies in a group that shares many traits in common, on a spectrum. In this way, a personality typing system may both find the usefulness and predictability of labeling “types” of personality, while also respecting the specific nuances of an individual who functions on multiple spectrums of behavioral determinants simultaneously. It’s the Social Personality System™ (originally, KWML), which is available in 1-5min tracks delivered one day at a time, for the full 5+ hours of the course (available to paid subscribers only). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe [https://masculinitytoday.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]