By: Tonette Kellett on April 16, 2023
Daniel Nettle’s book Personality: What Makes You The Way You Are describes personality as something internal, stable, inherent to the person. [1] It is something which stands in a casual relationship to their specific choices, motivations, reactions and obstacles when faced with the stream of events. [2] Nettle explains that there is a five-factor model…
By: Michael O'Neill on April 14, 2023
The Body Keeps the Score The Body Keeps the Score, written by Bessel van der Kolk, MD, is a groundbreaking work on trauma and its lasting effects on individuals throughout their lives. It sheds light on how traumatic experiences can cause physical, emotional, and neurological disturbances that are often deep-seated and complex to untangle. This…
By: Caleb Lu on April 12, 2023
In Daniel Nettle’s Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are, he posits that there are five main measurable factors that determine who we are [1]: extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness. Nettle ensures that personality, as measured by these five factors, are relatively stable through time.[2] In the second chapter, Nettle continues by delving…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on April 11, 2023
Introduction: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma[1] by Bessel van der Kolk is another book full of great insights. My takeaways from the book include the major role of the human brain in the way we function. I somehow used to see the heart as the engine…
By: Greg McMullen on April 10, 2023
A little over a decade ago, I was in a construction accident that changed my life forever. As I fell a total of 60 feet and spent 7 years after recovering from the fall, I still struggle with emotions in intense situations. I am partially disabled and my spine moves in three sections. Even though,…
By: Michael O'Neill on April 10, 2023
I was unexpectedly motivated this week by Daniel Nettle’s book, Personality. Psychology in general has never excited me and I negatively anticipated an Enneagram-style survey of some kind that was going to inaccurately “define me,” or accurately define me but I may disagree. I have completed various assessments in the past but find they tend…
By: David Beavis on April 10, 2023
With the help of Dr. Bessel Van Derk Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score,[1] the subject of trauma has gone from a topic mostly around military veterans to the vernacular of everyday life. For that, we are all indebted to Van Der Kolk. We have come to terms with our own trauma and received a…
By: Daron George on April 9, 2023
INTRODUCTION “Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are” by Daniel Nettle is an engaging and informative exploration of the complex field of personality psychology. In this book, Nettle provides a comprehensive overview of the major theories and research findings related to personality, with a particular emphasis on the Big Five personality traits. The Big…
By: Audrey Robinson on April 9, 2023
As I read the book and pursued other research on the personality topic, the most influential quote that summarizes the essence of our physical and mental state and how we are wired is Psalm 139:13-16 NLT. 13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on April 8, 2023
Human Beings. We are complex! I found Daniel Nettle’s book to be a valuable and interesting resource regarding human personality. Beyond this book, however, I was reminded of the amazing Creator who has woven us together in all of our intricacies, known and unknown to us. Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are British…
By: David Beavis on April 6, 2023
Why I Could Never be Elon Musk For better and for worse, Elon Musk has been in the spotlight for years. People are fascinated by the genius billionaire – a real-life Tony Stark. Ferociously driven with intelligence few can parallel, when one thinks of an individual leaving his or her mark on the world, it…
By: Greg McMullen on April 5, 2023
Daniel Nettle’s research spans across a vast range of fields such as health, psychology, individual differences and personality, and evolutionary sciences as well as in topics such as social inequality, cooperation, deprivation, and biological aging. Having a little more time this week with injuring my hand, I was able to do some deeper research on…
By: Jean de Dieu Ndahiriwe on April 5, 2023
Daniel Nettle in Personality: What makes you the way you are? Reminded me of my interactions and ratings in some of these, like Enneagram, DISC, Myers-Briggs, Maxwell Leadership assessment, and others. I like what he had to say about attachment theory. Attachment theorists argue that the mother-infant bond forms a kind of relationship template which…
By: Kristy Newport on April 4, 2023
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk is the “go to” book on trauma and interventions in treating those who have suffered from horrible events. I thoroughly enjoyed taking the online course Dr. Van Der Kolk provides and learning the interventions and theories he proposes for a practitioner’s clinical use. Dr. Van…
By: Alana Hayes on April 4, 2023
It’s not easy to navigate the murky waters of personality because the reality is that people are messy. We are all imperfect humans trying to make sense of a very convoluted world. People also vary greatly in their characteristics, behaviors, and life experiences which allows for actions and reactions to be shown or expressed differently.…
By: Laura Fleetwood on April 3, 2023
I saw a meme last week that said, “Don’t work God into your schedule. Work your schedule around God.” That’s a good introductory thought for a review of Vincent Miller’s book, Consuming Religion. This book examines two forces that are at work in the world: religion and consumerism and how they interact with each other.…
By: Alana Hayes on April 2, 2023
When I was a little girl I would create maps of our farmland with old napkins left in the truck and designate places that had an important value to me as a child. Whether it be the best spot to dig for worms, the place that denoted a dreaded snake hole, or even an x…
By: Alana Hayes on April 2, 2023
Gendered stereotypes tend to have an innocent until proven guilty vibe and they make me very tired. Let’s start with the line boys are better than girls at sports. My daughter and I would tell you differently. Although her and I’s chosen sports differ.. here are two examples to debunk that awful line with us…
By: Tonette Kellett on April 2, 2023
Vincent Miller, in his book Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture, talked about the commodification of religion in our modern society. There are many examples that can be given of this, but I think my favorite example is the church’s love for and adoration of Mother Theresa. [1] Modern Christians will…
By: Alana Hayes on April 2, 2023
Have you ever wondered what makes that leader different? Why did they stand out among the world? What risks were they able to take than others around them and why? When reading his book for the second time I couldn’t help but compare everything my husband and I have gone through within starting our own…
