Recently Jason Silva has been making my head explode with the with philosophical high-defintion mashups he puts out on youtube and shares them once a week. Check out some of the others on his youtube channel Shots of Awe. http://www.youtube.com/user/ShotsOfAwe
Personality Theory
“Everything has a personality.”
When I first started studying design and architecture somewhere along the way I was given the advice that “Everything has a personality.” This idea completely changed the way I started looking at the world. This concept has been the source of many conscious or unconscious decisions I have made a designer or a person.
“Everything has a personality.”
What is everything?
Dictionary.com defines it as:
1. every, thing or particular of an aggregate or total; all.
Everything can be a tree, a fork, chair or a car. It can be a building, a cluster of buildings, or a space. Everything can be a smell a smell or a sound.
“Everything has a personality.”
What is a personality?
Dictionary.com defines it as:
1. the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
2. a person as an embodiment of a collection of qualities: He is a curious personality.
3. Psychology .
a. the sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of an individual.
b. the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of the individual.
4. the quality of being a person; existence as a self-conscious human being; personal identity.
5. the essential character of a person.
Why does personality have to be constricted to a living thing with a heartbeat? Arent buildings, cities, streetlights, ideas, rocks, designed objects or organizations of anything alive and living in some sort?
“Everything has a personality.”
- What is the personality of everything right in front of your face at this exact moment?
- What is the personality of that door knob you touch 10 times a day?
- What is the personality of a shiny red Ferrari vs that old dodge neon?
- What is the personality of your healthy dinner vs the gourmet dinner vs the Mcdonalds dinner?
- What if we related to everything the way we tend to our relationships with people?
Often times I have learned, (especially with music) that the of something that I despise for some unknown reason. Will infact be something that I gravitate towards at some other point in my life.
Another idea that has rocked my world in my older age is “You are an average of the top 5 people you spend the most time with.”
Similar to Jason Silva; If everything has a personality how is the culmination of your relationship to everything having an effect on on you?
