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In a society that on the one hand espouses the virtues of humility, while also promoting self-importance, the inferiority complex emerges as one way that we try to reconcile these two disparate ideals

I talk about how to start meditating, whether there's any point to it, and the tricks of the old masters.

What is “masculinity” and how have our understandings of it evolved in recent years?

That’s a big question. What most people think of when they hear “masculinity” really consists of two similar but different things. The first are those traits in an individual that seem to be directly related to biological maleness. The second are those physical, social and psychological characteristics that we expect to find in males. 

When you ask a person: “How do you know that?” you are asking them to draw on their perceptive trait – the second letter of the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator.  This trait drives how we become interested in one thing over the other, and most importantly it determines how we understand and how we explain. 

Sensation is the process of conscious awareness, and iNtuition is the process of unconscious awareness.  

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become one of the most popular personality tests around.  Thousands, if not millions, of people have taken some version of the psychological assessment based on the findings of Carl Jung.  Some of these sites offer credible descriptions of the overall personality types, they rarely provide any information about the individual personality traits and their interactions with one another.  So, here I skip descriptions of the sixteen Myers-Briggs types and instead focus on the eight individual traits that make up each the Myers-Briggs types. 

I respond to a redditor who wonders if having a couple sexual experiences with another guy makes him gay. 

 Young men are finding new ways to reach out to each other and older generations for advice and mentorship.

Imagine you’re a twenty-something year-old guy about to have sex with his long-term girlfriend, something the two of you have done a number of times before, only this time you can’t seem to get an erection.  You make some excuse, you're just too tired or drunk or whatever, and she’s kind-enough about the whole ordeal, but secretly: you’re mortified.  Assuming you missed my article on psychologically induced erectile dysfunction, where might you turn for advice?