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I've been attending university for a while and looks like it's ganna drag on longer than expected...
But with the bad news there ought to be a balance of good news. I was recently offered an internship with my favorite game studio! Yesterday the senior engineer ended up passing on his cold to me so I'm pretty out of it just chillin at home.
I actually feel a little strange with my internship currently. Just before leaving to fly down to the company for a few months I had been seeing a psychologist for life advice. He recommended an extremely good book called King Warrior Magician Lover. The book is mostly about Jung archetypes, and how they manifest in the daily lives of boys and men. There is also advice on transition from boy mentality to manhood.
The troubles I've recently had in terms of my own person seem to come from a poor balance between King and Magician archetypes. When a King energy is underdeveloped in a person they can experience much anxiety, worries, and second guessing in their daily life. It can take away a lot of your energy and in general cause a lot of problems from a lot nothing. One example is that often times I'd find myself over-worrying about how much money I was spending. Often times I'd be afraid to purchase enough food for myself throughout the week just to save a few dollars. There wasn't a real-life need for such frugality; my poor decisions revolved around a poor balance between the King and Magician archetypes.
My psychologist advised I find men that are influential in my life, men that have great King (archetype) qualities that I can admire and absorb. Apparently boys develop King energy directly from the men in their lives with strong King energies. For those of us that experienced a divorce or otherwise absent father this means we'll have to do with intentionally growing a proper King energy.
Since I'm not living with any of my family while attending school I'm mostly surrounded by a lot of people with immature boy mentality. Not immature in the popular negative sense, but in the psychological sense of a lack of mature man mentality. The professors I greatly admire are too busy to spend meaningful amounts of time with.
However this internship turned out to be a wonderful time where I can glean from the experience and maturity of the senior engineer I work with. I admire a lot of the qualities about him and hope to learn how to be a more well rounded person by following by example. I suppose it's funny that I had always expected to learn a lot of technical skills about computer science, math, or what have you during my first internship. Turns out that different people have different flaws, and I'll be learning most about growing up.
Maybe someone else might benefit from reading the book too.
tl;dr meet cool people and glean their wisdom
  
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wow, this makes sooo much sense. I'm king of the lions, and your randalf the pale. Is that why you always ask me to play team games? so that you can hang out with someone who has a king mentality?
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Cool. Glad things are working out for you.
I'm interested in the book now - I have a feeling my Magician is quite strong, if you understand me. Though my Warrior is mostly dormant, it shows up sometimes with unexpected strength, and I know it is there, and how strong it is.
Interesting that there's an energy type that must be absorbed from others - King. I've felt for a long time that a certain energy must be absorbed from those around you, and this has a good way of explaining it. Thanks!
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Could you explain the archetypes in short?
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Thanks for the congrats guys 
On May 24 2014 08:07 Saechiis wrote:
Could you explain the archetypes in short?
King - Ability to make decisions, decide when there's enough resources, ability to give to others, sense of calm and control from a broad perspective.
Warrior - Life initiative, sense of purpose, alert and reactive, self discipline, quick decisiveness.
Magician - The inner skeptic, a thirst for learning and knowledge, self introspection, sense of spirituality.
Lover - Ability to experience life in all it's fullness, feeling the world in a grain of sand, a sense of oneness with all of nature. Also sex.
This actually looks like a decent link: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/07/31/king-warrior-magician-lover-introduction/
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tl;dr meet cool people and glean their wisdom
So this. Also I would go so far as to say just extend this to "do random new shit and harvest knock-on wisdom", especially if you need to clear a rut or outgrow a habit or fog.
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Congrats on the internship. That sounds like an awesome company to get to work for.
Wish I could offer some wisdom, but I'm in no place to give advice right now.
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Hey Cecil, gz!
this is pretty interesting, let me know if you wanna talk on skype sometime~
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Don't let Jungian archetypes rule your life man. There is too much in between for them to work, but they are great for literature if you're northrop frye. That game studio is kickass man, congrats on that internship!
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Try, "The Hero Within," by Carol S. Pearson. This is the book that introduced me to Jungian archetypes.
I would add to the Magician archetype that one of its main qualities is a "strong belief and faith in the way the life/world is unfolding."
This has been really important to me in my life; in the past I have experienced that as a sense of surrender to the events of my life. The giving up of trying to control every aspect of how my life develops and then loving the turns life has in store for me. I lived that for a good 6 months when I was 23-24, but sometime after that I lost touch with it. Was beautiful while I was riding the wave, sounds to me like some of this might be unfolding for you. This is an alternative view of the Magician that I hope you find helpful, if it interests you or anyone else reading this thread then check out Carol Pearson's book for more.
Also, the main reason I clicked on this blog was because I spent a lot of time reading your extensive guide on mechanics for sc2. Much love, thanks for an awesome guide. I considered many times hitting you up for a lesson 
For anyone that missed it, here is the link.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/208343-how-to-improve-efficiently-at-sc2-1v1
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