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Sex Drive: Using It to Make More Than Babies
Before you grab a handful of kleenex and type 'youporn' into the address bar, you might want to consider -- focused sexual desire lncreases creative productivity. With discipline you can focus your desires on concrete goals that will increase your wealth, vitality, and ability to fulfill those sexual desires the way you really want to.
The power of sexual energy has been known for centuries. Carl Jung saw the desire for personal achievement to be one and the same as the sex drive. In "Think and Grow Rich", an entire chapter is dedicated to the transmutation of sex drive into motivation:
Sex desire is the most powerful of human desires. When harnessed, and redirected along other lines, this motivating force maintains all of its attributes of keenness of imagination, courage, etc., which may be used as powerful creative forces in literature, art, or in any other profession or calling, including, of course, the accumulation of riches.
So how do you turn those crazy urges into productivity? The key is finding the right goals. Sexual energy is most effective when focused on activities that improve your chances of fulfilling sexual desires. Anything that makes you more powerful, dominant, and confident is a good place to start. Most good activities fall into 3 categories:
1. Working out
2. Developing a creative talent
3. Building wealth
It's also important to pick goals that appeal to your personal preferences. If accounting bores you to tears, learning how to read a balance sheet probably won't tap into your sexual drive. Select goals you find extremely challenging or exciting. Goals the involve creative expression, complex strategy, or the expectation of a large payout in the future are ideal.
Use the sex drive to motivate. Go to the gym and push yourself. Start developing that business idea you've had in mind. Write, draw, paint, or develop your creative talents in another medium. By using your sex drive as a source of strength and inspiration, you'll become smarter, stronger, and more charismatic.
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i must admit that this is not the first time that i have heard the majority of these statements. i think they can work if used on a daily basis. sex makes for a positive result most of the time!
I don't find the post creepy. I find it culturally biased though. The strive for economic wealth seems a bit shallow to me, as a substitute for sex. I think I'll stay with the sex-part in that case, regardless of the need of kleenex.
The collective unconscious is often misunderstood in the way you see above. The concept does not imply some real-time subconscious, mental interaction. It is merely a variation on the idea that ontogenies recapitulates fylogenese. Our subconscious has inherited structural predispositions that can, in a metaphoric way, be described as "the mother", "the hero" etc. In fact our brain has an evolutionary heritage, that goes as far back in history as the first living organism. Residues and trails of this heritage is common to all men, but not easily recognized. Hence the concept: "collective unconscious". This understanding of the human mind hardly qualifies for "an idiot".
Amit
This post wasn't creepy at all. And it wasn't saying to avoid actual sex or physical contact. Just that you can channel that drive/desire for achieving other things as well.
Okay, collective unconscious aside, Jung had a point and I agree with the author's statement.
Carl Jung is widely considered a genius and and founder of transpersonal psychotherapy. It may seem odd at first to consider that an individual unconscious mind would be connected to other individual unconscious minds, but there is a lot of evidence from comparative religion, myth, and the direct experiences of saints and sages throughout history.
Does anybody else find this post creepy and weird?
Unless your a human microchip you need physical contact. 'Oil can. Oil can.'
"Carl Jung was not an idiot but a man that probably has more people with respect for him than you have. I also see that you are not up on your physics, I know from personal experience that we are connected by something. Last I know you are not a psychology student, its 101 that associative principles exists in determining behavior."
Your very first sentence is a logical fallacy. Argument from authority. It is true that Jung is respected but that is not basis enough to merit the article.
As for the collective unconscious... its humorous to me that people can believe in that and deny the existence of God.
oh great but my keyboard is out to get me
my name is tim. Im not an anonymouse vagina
(quote) ... Carl Jung was an idiot who also believed that the human unconscious mind was linked to every other person on the planet (un-quote)
- On a molecular level, we are ALL connected and part of a larger vibration and so part of the bigger picture, so why not on the unconscious level? ...this would make sense to me, so I don't see the justification for the 'idiot' label.
HAHA
The relentless pursuit of the opposite sex for mating is a primal urge. That's why we're still around as a species. But it doesn't mean that we need to have hundreds of kids, even if making them is so much fun. So, why NOT channel that energy into something more useful? Like earning lots of money so you can have better sex with prettier people?
Carl Jung was not an idiot but a man that probably has more people with respect for him than you have. I also see that you are not up on your physics, I know from personal experience that we are connected by something. Last I know you are not a psychology student, its 101 that associative principles exists in determining behavior.
Except... Carl Jung was an idiot who also believed that the human unconscious mind was linked to every other person on the planet, so you might just want to check your justifications over again.
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