Cross posted from https://lemmy.wtf/post/47568469
Why does becoming your truest self often mean ending up with almost no friends left? In this video, we explore Carl Jung’s rarest personality type — the introverted intuitive — and why solitude isn’t a failure of connection, but the final stage of psychological individuation. Learn why the people who seem “distant” or “hard to reach” may actually be the most whole.
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I think it definitely becomes harder to make friends the more you cultivate your own tastes in entertainment, or make up your own mind politically, or basically any of the stuff that connects us in a society.
Although you might need to spend a significant amount of time without friends around to get there in the first place. So it could be a chicken and egg kind of situation.
Not going into the article beyond your summary because I’m not really interested in subscribing to someone who wants to sell me a way of life but just to relate to it; I moved across the country like a decade ago and I’ve been too much of a poor to get out much since. So I’ve mostly kept myself busy and gone down my own rabbit holes without the influence of friends or the clubhouse.
And I feel a bit like I’m in the twilight zone or something these days. Especially with a large segment of the world population getting into podcasts and becoming pod people. I just find it hard to relate to it trust most people I meet beyond the superficial level now.
Although another chicken and egg thing here is, it’s hard for me to decide of isolation and self discovery changed me, or if it saved me from being changed into a weird conservative pod person.