A Great Model To Explain Human Behaviour

[Butters]

As I was listening to David Deida's "The Way of the Superior Man" on audiobook, it started to make sense. 

Male and Female energy explains a lot of our actions and behaviors. 

We all have both Male and Female energy, and this concept is completely separate from sex and gender. 

 

So basically, Male Energy is constant. That which never changes. These are consciousness and death. I can't think of anything else. 

Male Energy is found in qualities like

• Discipline
• Work ethic
• Emotional mastery
• Purpose

 

Now Female Energy is the ongoing change. Flowing like the wind. Everything is always changing. That's the Female Energy. 

Female Energy is found in qualities like

• Feeling into your emotions
• Learning new things
• Making new connections
• Desiring 
• Wanting to experience

 

Having too much of either spectrum is a guaranteed way to make you unhappy. 

Having too much female energy might give you a great vision for you life, but you're only going off sporadic motivation. You might say things like "I'm going to quit weed next week", because that's how you genuinely feel right now. But you lack the discipline and work ethic to make this work. 

You may think someone is going to come, to save you from your misery. You know you should take responsibility for your life, but really deep down you still desire for someone to come and save you. 

Stereotypes include: the hippie, the starving artist, the emotionally unstable friend

 

Having too much male energy means you're not open to change. You're unable to properly do personal development and you cling to your opinions as if they're absolute truths. 

You may go online and argue with other people, or get triggered by opinions other than your own. You're not open to the possibility the other side could be right, and can't conceive that your opinion is only a product of time and circumstance, not absolute truth. 

Stereotypes include: the elderly conservative, nationalists, those who glorify capitalism, fighting over wrong and right

 

Ultimately you want to find a balance between the two energies. That doesn't mean literally 50/50, it means something that works for you. 

 

Did you guys like this? It's just a bunch of observations but like Spiral Dynamics, I find this model of the world very helpful in growing myself. 

Edited October 27, 2018 by Butters

[Pilgrim]

Wow, so powerful. I totally agree. I have realised this in myself lately as well. I have way too much feminine energy.. I fit perfectly into the stereotype of the hippie and the starving artist.  

Well at least, I know what I have to do now. 

Edited October 27, 2018 by Pilgrim