The shadow would be all the parts of the personality that the persona rejects, and that might be the aggressive elements - certainly that’s the case for people who are highly agreeable. There’s two pathways tied to the development of the shadow, and they’re both tied to one another; the fundamental pathway is truth, and that’s to face the bitter truth about yourself but, to break that down more particularly, you might think about that as the capacity to observe your own resentment; you’re going to be resentful and bitter in many situations because you don’t get what you want, and if you watch that resentment and bitterness, you’ll see that it produces fantasies that can be unbelievably dark. And that can be very frightening, and you might not want to admit to yourself that you’re actually capable of having fantasies like that, or impulses, or aggressive feelings like that. But the thing is that if those aggressive feelings and impulses and fantasies are integrated into your character it’s like you’re opening up a dialogue with a part of yourself that can be very forceful and strong, and dangerous. And it’s really useful to be dangerous, because if you can be dangerous, you often don’t have to be. And it’s often weak people; for example it’s weak men generally speaking who [commit] violent acts, but it’s born out of weakness, not of strength, that’s for sure. And so, anyways, you attend to your resentment honestly and you observe yourself and what you’re actually like, you gotta pay attention as if you don’t know yourself - as if you might harbour hidden devils. And then maybe they’ll emerge. - @jordan.b.peterson https://www.instagram.com/p/B_0WGQcnzd1/?igshid=1d9ljc9v1lqqx