What should you aim for in life? - Jordan B. Peterson
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- Опубліковано 1 кві 2017
- This is an excerpt from a longer talk Jordan Peterson held at the University of Western Ontario. Original video: • Video
In this segment Peterson discusses the relationship between nihilism, responsibility and meaning, and then the story of Pinocchio and the transformation of the individual, as a way to show how we can live meaningful lives and set goals that fulfill our existential needs.
When you start just saying 'Oh, I want to write this down; it's a good one' ...and end up transcribing the whole video.
me when trying to take notes from his online lectures
0:23 suffering feels meaningful
2:21 Stupid frame of references for meaninglessness (million years vs your life now)
3:01 You can adopt meaning by reducing your suffering
7:21 Ask yourself what in your life isn't in order that you can put in order today with a little effort, so your experience tomorrow is a little more put together than it is today. The little snakes to slay. You'll get a little bit stronger and a little more clarity. Then incrementally you can build up competance, more power over your circumstances and move towards your potentials. Life becomes more meaningful.
16:03 Have discussions with your conscious to build it up for more accuracy
18:28 We're in a state of crisis because 'god is dead' and there's no replacement to rely on given to us by default, because there's not many immediate survival concerns. So we must adopt a different one that's good for us / the world.
19:51 If you scrap value structures there's nothing to live for. Adopting the nations doesn't work too well.
21:05 You need to create a meaningful life that feels meaningingful enough to you so you can significantly ease and bear the suffering in life, if you don't want to become corrupted into the choas of the devouring radical left or the dehumanising, sterile uniformity of the radical right. Pick up responsibility so that you can pick up a more meaningful life.
thank you ! you're doing God's work, my mate
makes it much easier to follow
I also summarized it higher
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thank you sooo much
You are an absolute gem
Seriously though Jordan Peterson is helping me turn my life around.
Me 2
The bad thing is, that you should learn this. From your parents. Or at least in a school class.
The bad thing is, that you should learn this. From your parents. Or at least in a school class.
He may say yoire turning your life around
Me too
Kermit in stunned silence...
LOL
Its not easy being green.
Part of what makes JP so appealing is that even when he's talking about doing the dishes it inspires you run a marathon.
I'm so glad this guy was thrust into the public eye. Everyone needs to hear what he has to say in today's society.
I agree that we have a lot of freedom within our current societal and political structures. The downside, it seems, is that these structures create a literal breeding ground for mindless, dull, fearful and unhealthy individuals and families. That being said, It's videos like these that are starting to restore my faith in humanity and inspiring me to work towards taking responisibility for my own life so I can be a role model to others and provide value to my family and community.
a) Do no harm (Ahimsa principle). b) Try to excel at something over time. c) Use all your powers of observation.
That's good enough for a life to be well lived.
Great upload. I had to pause a few times to think and reflect. I had to go back a few minutes a few times to fully understand this genius fully.
All in all a great upload, I am glowing.
For those that understood this fully: We start today.
For tomorrows world.
It's a real joy hearing Dr. Peterson speak, I've seen videos of him trying to give a talk but being shouted down by protesters shouting slogans and slurs, to think if they had just listened they would have learned something fundamental about themselves.
I had a terrible father and no male role model my whole life. I wish I was more like Mr. Peterson
JaimeG88 same here
JaimeG88 Well you're off to a good start - you have an ideal to aim for.
Believe it or not, that's the problem with the world today, too many of us never had a strong male to look up to in our lives.
JaimeG88 hey man, you're here. Maybe your father did not have a good father figure or a mentor too. So stop whining and be thankful that you can find solutions/explanations to your concerns so easily. UA-cam wasn't here 20 ago. Sure there were books but the time and dedication needed to find answers to your questions was too much. Before internet if you wanted to know the capital of all the countries in the world you had to go to the bookstore and pay for a book and then read the entire damn thing because maybe the names are not in a list and they are revealed gradually and maybe if you wanted them in a list you should've written down each one of them as they are revealed by each chapter. Now you just Google the damn thing and it's there.
So your problem is that your father didn't have the time and dedication to contemplate the meaning of life?
I've had the same excuses as you at some point in life. As Mr Peterson says, stop making excuses and take up your responsibilities.
I may be offtrack here, concerning your situation, but blaming your ancestors for your being doesn't float anymore, it's just an excuse for your failures.
same here!
From now on i want to make a new life using this great video! Thank you for sharing!
Perfectly brilliant insight and advice
Incredible. Thank you.
Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
I honestly teared up a little bit; Jordan Peterson is genuinely changing my life.
you must have a real shit life if peterson is the one that is changing it.
Mind blown again at 13 min in
You are my Jimmy cricket, Jordan Peterson.
this one is real gold
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
spidey cnt thanks Conan:-)
spidey cnt sex
RevolutionarySoldier google it:-)
Talitha Leah Oliver Stone took it from Genghis Khan.
Richard Bahena inspired by, yes, but the quote is Conan. I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out and dozens of times since, made a huge impression on me. I used to practice my broadsword moves on the playground. Stop being a know it all and let us movie nerds enjoy running into each other in the comment sections now and then:-)
Absolutely incredible. Thank you sir, for a profound learning experience.
What a refreshing way of thinking and view about life compared to today's new age philosophy b.s. Peterson is the real deal.
This is great!
Mind blown ! And only 10 min in.
You see where you're going? This road leads to growth.
If you came to this video, years later. You are asking the right questions.
Keep starting with why, make your intentions clear in the range of your capacity in bad days and the progression steps as little as possible.
❤️ Thoughtful people like you and the huge potentials of the future is meaningful for me ✨
This is absolutely legendary
Pure GOLD. This is where every self help guru loses credibility. Peterson nails it every time.
i could listen to him all day, but as he has said, I've got responsibilities to pick up
Punching myself in the face now and am going to make my new life all about doing the right thing from now on !
So how'd it go?
AReG720 i dont think you can ask him that question, more like "how's it going?" or ask him about the rollercoaster of growth
How's everything doing bro ?
You just punched yourself in the face and wasted money on hospital bills.
Not a good start, honestly.
It’s either going swimmingly well or not well at all based on the non response. I received Dr. Peterson’s new book as a birthday gift last month and it is fantastic. He has completely helped me to turn my life around and helped me stop sliding down into the far right for all his critics out there who want to call him a Nazi or a gatekeeper to the alt-right. They hate him.
This guy just nails it again and again
I love this audience!
12:18 One of Professor Peterson's best moments
Is that a "Kermit the frog" backpack in the floor... ?
It's kermit the frog lying on a backpak on the floor
Found his choice of socks interesting.
I often hear, use your anger to get things done. In my opinion this is just an indirect way of spreading anger (instead of projecting it onto other beings; fights, wars etc). What I learned with the Thich Nhat Hanh practices, is to practice mindfulness to be aware what I feel so I can decide which emotions I water and take responsibility for it. In this way I can become aware of anger, transfrom it into love/compassion and take action from that place.
What I feel in the modern western society behind daily actions, there is a lot of:
- Stress
- restlesness
- resentment
- anger
- fear
- desperation
Why? I think its because of the fact people are constantly trying to live up to some social narrative to feel a sense of being good enough as a person in the form of:
- Comparing to others
- Competing with others
- Chasing validation from others
- Chasing materialistic things and status, which is the product of all the above, and which lies at the core of overconsumption and fucking up mother earth.
In my experience, over the years I became very good at neglecting the things above, because I was addicted to the story the voice in ''my'' head was telling me, which is completely based on past experience and social conditioning. I was AFRAID to let go of the story. Why? Because I thought I would die! There s only a single time im in this body on tis earth, and I'm not going to spend time walking around in FEAR and moulding myself into somekind of unnatural form which is completely based on some externally formed opinion. FUCK THAT
Let's stop hurting ourselves and others and see the facts!
some of the biggest industries in the world:
- Weapons (destruction)
- Drugs (addiction)
- Seks (addiction)
- Don t get me started on food and the amount of addictive shit being put in there.
- Whats next, water? Air?
Stop taking things for granted and stop giving your power away! The moment you were born you we're PERFECTLY ENOUGH and those trees outside your house, THEY PRODUCE OXYGEN!
Taking notes.
4:20 to 5:50 very important, true true.
Is that why we need to be "saved"
Kind regards from Poland.
Thank God
I rarely give respect, but this man earn it
20:48 "Freedom and happiness are not the same thing at all."
it is so fucking cute watching the three people on his left watching him. they r mesmerized by the enthusiasm he has about what he speaks of.
Wisdom is the target
I've done so much to nurture that evil fragment that I often believe on the orientation of its core.
At 13:00 is worth the price of admission. If you live in peace/have a warm house/ "Thank Your Lucky Stars" because the normal state of human equilibrium is chaos and violence.
Do things that make you better, quit the things that make you worse - in a year you’ll be a beast
i am currently lost in my visionary life... i will comeback when i get an answer. keeetchuup
Great video! thanks for sharing! And by the way I am going to save Gepetto from the belly of the whale... Right now!
Powerful speech! That guy in the hallway doorway is creepy af though.
fan for 5 years
My pain is meaningless in regards to other people and how they relate to me.. but personally?? My pain means it all and colors everything in my life... so I mostly agree with him.. maybe all the way... but I'm unclear on the context being used here..
Peterson is someone Bill Maher would IMMEDIATELY regret bringing on his show.
He's had him on the show.
Near the end I believe he meant to say "the dehumanizing rigid RIGHT". Just for clarification.
This man talks, thinks and reasons the way I do! It's quite beneficial to have his asshole speak to my asshole. It's like hearing myself out loud and very affirming 😄. Thanks JP, for continuing to spark my motivation to be real in a world where this conviction is repeatedly lost to the noise and everyday I have to fight to keep it clear.
I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. I have discovered this principle of life-that when I want to do what is right, evil is right there waiting.
Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should.
I really like this guy.
I am consistently blown away by this man's words. Think for a second how incorporating this phrase into the body of your life will reduce so much friction:
"You shouldn't make a public display of your virtue until you've straightened up your damn life." I mean....wow.
In my opinion, one of the most powerful things you can do to climb out (and you know what I mean if you are watching this) is exercise. And its so simple. Just begin. Do one pushup. Tomorrow or even later that same day, do two pushups. It builds from there. I promise you.
Wow
This man should be President of the world.
wow
10:00 👍
positive meaning doesn't exist without negative meaning
no shit lmfao
Mad Shangi and... That's a bad thing?
The great Yin & Yang principle.
I would marry this man's brain.
He himself is also nice enough :)
3 people are sour as frig aboot this truth
he gets so upset when people applaud, its so nice. i wish he'd tell them to stop clapping so easily in the middle of an idea like that, its horrible to come back to it.
❤
3:32 straighten your life out humbly (make sure your actions are aiming up)
It's really interesting, but who's that guy siitting in the doorway of the corridor. Once I see him, I cant take my eyes off him
I’m 10 minutes in and my brain can’t seem to keep up. I love this man, and when i do understand i love what he says. But sometimes i just can’t keep up. Help?
King 05 Which part could you not understand?
Watch it 100 times and study it
Being alive is the meaning.
No
talk about reducing pain and suffering...they should start with the chairs!
I think pain is meaningless.
“Who brought on the horror of the Nazi system” the answer is people just like you. Mind blown.
enjoy the dark days and move past them. :)
The “Karsdayshians” struck me in the funny. Sneak Diss
Who are the guys sitting next to him?
off topic but if those were his stuff next to him, it's cute
He travels with Kermit
12:50 is a 200 megaton atom bomb of revelation.
Jordan clearly just slayed the dragon of chaos that is Kermit the Frog. Giving the speech over his motionless corpse is pretty brutal though.
I dont know im dead inside. Can not get any sad3sfaction
Is that a pupet kermin on the floor
This guys fkin brilliant! eh!
What about protests where the people involved have actually been hurt by the state? I mean, not soulless demands but factual truth.
Well, then, What Does Pain Mean?
Audio makes it difficult to understand!
Those socks tho!
Every time the audience claps, why does Peterson bow his head as if he's almost ashamed? Is it to be modest? Or is it to ensure that his ego doesn't get inflated by the validation? What do you guys think?
This guy should be everyones godfather
I hate it when people clap in the middle of someone talking.
Lol it gives him time to drink his water which is pretty convenient I think
Aim for the moon. Because even if you miss it, you’ll still be among the stars (:
10:00
Aaah yes, that late night youtube procrastination binge that does not fully feel like procrastination because you convince yourself it is a cure to procrastination. Yet you keep doing it. Surely this time around it will work.
9:10
12:40 america right now..
He says the "right" thing to do is escape pain. And part of escaping pain is building the capacity to deal with it (responsibility). If he is asked, why should we try to escape pain in life? He does not have an answer. If one recognizes that certain pain is only meaningful now and may not have any effect on the future, like after hundreds of years one child's suffering won't matter, he says that is stupid.
Pain obviously does matter, up to a certain point. But then it does not matter after that point. JP simply demands people not look beyond that point. His framework for "right" and "wrong" is built on things that have meaning before that point.
There is no true end game to life. I think Peterson knows that but refuses to say it because it may cause less people to live prosperous lives. Just like a religious leader refuses to say to his followers that God does not actually exist, because saying that may cause less people to follow what he believes are good teachings for what he believes to be a good life.
Why is it"right" for the guy building legos and organizing his room? What is the meaning of this? What is the end game? Jordan Peterson is coming from a framework of "right" and "wrong". But why does he choose this framework? I don't get it..
He says the "right" thing to do is escape pain. And part of escaping pain is building the capacity to deal with it (responsibility). If he is asked, why should we try to escape pain in life? He does not have an answer. If one recognizes that certain pain is only meaningful now and may not have any effect on the future, like after hundreds of years one child's suffering won't matter, he says that is stupid.
Pain obviously does matter, up to a certain point. But then it does not matter after that point. JP simply demands people not look beyond that point. His framework for "right" and "wrong" is built on things that have meaning before that point.
There is no true end game to life. I think Peterson knows that but refuses to say it because it may cause less people to live prosperous lives. Just like a religious leader refuses to say to his followers that God does not actually exist, because saying that may cause less people to follow what he believes are good teachings for what he believes to be a good life.
shut that kid up. a great man is speaking
Can anyone tell me why he's got the Kermit doll?
17:35 "I can't listen to protesters. . . . It's just painful. It's this constant repetition of . . . soulless nonsense."
I guess the 28 "dislikes" are people who participate in protests