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The Relative Experience Chart

The Creator

Proonish Marigold, the founder of Relative Psychology, based on the theory that “no person has suffered more greatly than any other person, as each person’s emotional pain scale is set to themselves. […] Our lives are groups of meaningful events, marked by periods of long sits, and somewhere among those are the best and worst things you will ever experience.” […]

Summary

The Relative Experience Chart depicts the entire range of a human’s emotional capacity. The top left depicts the individual’s most emotionally impactful negative event and the top right would be the most emotionally impactful positive event. These events are called “The Great Tragedy” and “The Great Triumph,” respectively. The middle of the graph, “the Well,” represents negligible events – these events are the most likely to be forgotten by the individual. Altogether, this map makes up the entirety of your human experience, to which we have named “The Great Narrative.” […]

The philosophy behind the chart is the idea that every person experiences the same range of emotion, regardless of age or experience. The weight of an experienced is always measured against these two points, the Great Tragedy and the Great Triumph. The Relative Experience Chart is based on the simple idea that nobody has experienced anything worse than their worse experience, or better than their best experience. This isn’t to say that every person’s experience is the same as every other person’s. Every individual subjective experience is relative to every individual subjective individual experience, however, each person’s Great Narrative is unique and valued against every other person’s Great Narrative. […]