/lit/ - Literature

I've actually read it and many of his other works, what questions do you have?

>Anyone got a tl;dr on this?
>Anyone got a tl;dr on Jung
lmao, no. I mean, it's an introduction to the four major practical applications of his theory of psychology.

The first chapter, for example, delves into the distinction between what is conscious and what is unconscious. The subsequent chapters delve deeper into structures within the unconscious and how it is that typical humans come into contact with them.

>>20820947
> what is the process that by through reading my tiny little paragraph that you correctly identified this as my problem?
So, if you really want to master anything involving people, and develop an authentic and accurate intuition for them, then you'll need to study psychoanalytic theory. I'd recommend starting with Jordan Peterson's online lectures on personality. Or, if you're one of those people who doesn't comprehend the value of free high quality lecturing, pay shitloads of money to go to school for psychology. If you're smarter than the average person, then you should start with Carl Jung and the book 'Man and His Symbols'. Now, it will be easy for you to dismiss Carl Jung as just another name of just another academic in the long list of names you've encountered over the course of your life - don't do this. Carl Jung is, in my experience, the definitive source for all things pertaining to human behavior. Dismiss him at your peril. If he's good enough for the CIA to consider required study, he's good enough for you. That's my answer to your question.


>... "why can't you close deals" I would have told you "because I don't know how to make clients aware of the value I can provide for them."
SPIN selling will answer this question for you. Essentially, the Huthwaite institute takes contracts from large corporations, and has done so since the early 70's, in order to map out how their best salespeople sell. So, it's the culmination of something like 30,000 sales interactions, systematized into a method which explains not what you should do to sell, but the stages and techniques that all good salespeople use whether they realize it or not. For example, the institute found that every salesperson of merit goes through the same types of questions in sequence; the same sequence every time. Some salespeople only spent a minute on situation questions, whereas others spent over ten. Some spent ten seconds in the problem question phase, others over an hour. But they all, every one, if they sold well, asked specific types of questions in a specific sequence.

That book is the resultant of their research.

>Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but does that mean I need to in effect both blow smoke up their ass
It means that most of your clients are going to have prefixed, borderline axiomatic presuppositions about who they are as people and how wise they are in general. Most higher end, successful freelancers know full well that 4/5 projects they work on will be attached to businesses that fail catastrophically. Being able to identify which businesses you're dealing with, or individual freelancers for that matter, are going to fail (almost always because of the cognitive insufficiency of the owner) will allow you to make a reasonable, prudent decision as to precisely how much effort you're going to spend negotiating with this person. Sometimes it's best to simply argue for the best price you can get for the work, do it, and step away quickly.

>>20792757
Because all conscious organisms experience some sort of pain, and it is intrinsically meaningful. There is no rational way you can assuage pain. Which means pain is the ultimate meaning. Ergo, by your own retarded logic, pain is God as it is the most fundamentally unquestionable experience.

Think your way out of that one, Plato.

>>20784615
>The shadow isn't real, that is the issue in of itself.
Good lord, I've honestly never seen someone discredit their opinion so utterly completely with so few words.

Have you been published? I need to read other insane shit you've written.

>>20778735
> What I earned last month is irrelevant, I work enough to pay rent and eat well and am doing a masters degree.
That's what I thought. You'll speak when spoken to, hylic.