Introjection

But I love bringing understanding to everything, 'cause there's nuance in everything.

So I'm gonna go back for a second to the 4/6, uh, what'd you call it? Interjection projection? Introjection?

Yeah.

Whatever.

That holds even when the non-self-concordant goals are nominally more impressive or socially valued.

The introjected goal is the specific mechanism behind your purpose crisis.

Introjected goals are not externally imposed on you.

No one forced you to pursue them, but they aren't genuinely internal either.

They were absorbed from your environment so thoroughly, so early, and so consistently reinforced that they feel like your own values when they aren't.

The man who accumulates status markers because his peer group does and because their absence would feel like failure to him is pursuing introjected goals.

Have you ever, in your adult life, sat down and honestly interrogated which of your goals you'd choose if the choosing were purely yours, free from the influence of parents, peers, culture, and the accumulated expectations of every environment you've moved through? If not, you are almost certainly running a significant proportion of introjected goals right now.

Introjected goals produce results for you.

ourselves so you're going to be asked about yourself and your personal development through the arc of your training and then you may be asked how that links to the theory that you're studying so you can go in and you're in your your lecture and you're hearing about a theory i don't know um

Introjected values.

Introjected values.

Thank you, Rory.

Introjected values.

And you're thinking, what is that? Let me understand this and let me read what Roger said about it.

I don't really get it.