The Drive to Achieve Personality: Dabrowski’s Third Factor in Context
One of Kazimierz Dabrowski’s students explains the workings of the third factor of development and compares it to other frameworks.
Tag Archives: Sorting Out Our Values
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Abstract Intensity in the Ideological Classroom
Marie loved helping her abstract intense students hone their ability to question and reason in pursuit of a better world. Then a new political trend hit, making school less friendly to questioners than she’s ever seen it.
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Through Chaos, Toward Community
When there are rules and taboos that prevent true fellowship, is there a path out of this stifling pseudo-community? Ralph Rickenbach blends the insights of M. Scott Peck and Kazimierz Dabrowski to navigate through the chaos.
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Authentic Conscience: Unpacking Dabrowski’s Third Factor
The theory of positive disintegration emphasizes authenticity. So what if someone’s authentically a jerk?
The question nagged at the author early in her study of Dabrowski’s theory. With a reframing of the third factor, however, it became clear why no one’s personality ideal is to become a supervillain.
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The Path of the Agreeable Questioner: An Interview with Andrea Lynn Lewis
Do you want to ask probing intellectual questions while also getting along with those who disagree with you?
Andrea Lynn Lewis has a lot of practice with this balancing act. She shares her thoughts on echo chambers, brittle relationships, and striving to live up to her ideal.
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Third Factor Reads: The Genetic Lottery · Innate · The Cult of Smart
How should we think about genetic inequity in social and educational policy? Rick Heller reviews three recent books on the subject with an eye to making society fair where inborn endowment is not.
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Why We Joined the Institute for Liberal Values
We’re proud to team up with an organization that shares our values of free expression, critical thinking, civic engagement, and humility.
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Gothic Childhoods
Fantasy novelist Karen Nilsen reflects on how good parenting—and the emotional honesty of stories like Hans Christian Andersen’s—shielded her from her grandmother’s pathological narcissism.
But are children today getting the same preparation? Or are our mermaids too watered down?
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Unapologetically Speaking His Mind: An Interview with Upperhand Mars
It’s never been easy to be an independent thinker, but discussing contentious issues that affect you personally on social media has to be the hardest way to do it. We sit down with Mars, a politically homeless transgender man, to talk about where he found his confidence and why he keeps talking despite the abuse he takes from Left and Right alike.
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