Colin Deyoung is a personality psychologist, personality neuroscientist, the creator of the Cybernetic Big Five Personality theory and the associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, and a former student of Jordan Peterson.

In this podcast, we talk about the big five personality theory, personality change due to social media, the philosophy of well-being, cybernetics, Thomas Szasz and the Myth of Mental Illness, Stoicism, conscientiousness and mastering attention through goals.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
02:00 - Understandmyself.com and Big Five history
06:00 - Colin meeting the Big Five
09:30 - The function of attention
12:00 - Social Media companies monetising attention
14:30 - Technology and personality change
20:00 - Character versus personality
25:00 - Social Media and psychopathology
27:00 - The Myth of Mental Illness
29:20 - Mental Illness; brain or behaviour?
34:00 - Well-being and pharmaceuticals
36:20 - Values and cybernetic theory
41:00 - Stoicism, ACT and CBT
45:00 - The Ethics of Attention
48:30 - conscientiousness
51:00 - How to increase conscientiousness
53:30 - Colin's story
56:00 - How to master your attention

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