Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality (TED Books)

Projects like “sitting in” or “going to the demonstration” or “seeking justice” were now commitments—acts of meaning with consequences for the person I was becoming.

Set: A project encompasses a series of actions that are considered interrelated by the project pursuer.

These dynamic features are what I call the personal contexts of your life.

Hyperconnected Projects: If you rated some of the projects that matter to you as low on “visibility to others” and not much valued by other people, these are flags that such projects might run into trouble. But you may have the opposite problem—you may be hyperconnected with others. Other people usually initiate your projects, they value them deepl

personal projects are moving pictures; their full meaning is not apparent until the entire sequence comes into view.

A sense of project meaning rests on how important the project is to you—how consistent with your core values it is and how self-expressive it is (that it really feels like you).

Why, on the one hand, is an intrapersonal project associated with negative emotions and vulnerability, and on the other, is seen as a creative adventure? It is likely due to the origin of the self-focused project.

It’s important to understand how restorative niches work because, when we act out of character, our environments might afford us the opportunity to return to our “natural” state.

Personally salient: By salient I mean that a person identifies a course of action as standing out from all the other possibilities that might be pursued.