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This week, I discuss how elevating your aim and creating an ideal leads to the process of continually recapitulating yourself. Then, I talk with “the mother of mindfulness,” Dr. Ellen Langer, about time, disease, tragedy, suffering, and the role faith and hope play in them. From the archives, I look back on a segment of one of my lectures about different forms of intelligence.
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Advice
Create A New Ideal
As you elevate your aim, you create a judge at the same time. Because the new ideal — which is an ideal even if it is just an ideal position that you might occupy or if it is still conceptualized in that concrete way — becomes a judge because it is above you. Then you are terrified of it. Maybe that is why you might be afraid when you start a new job. Because this thing is above you and you are terrified of it and it judges you. That is useful because the judge you’re creating by formulating the ideal tells you what’s useless about yourself, and then you can dispense with it and you want to keep doing that. Then every time you make a judgment that is more elevated, there is more useless you that has to be dispensed with.
You can do this. The thing that is interesting about this is that you can do it more or less on your own terms. You have to have some collaboration from other people, but you do not have to pick an external ideal. You can pick an ideal that fulfills the rule of ideal for you. You can say, “If things could be set up for me the way I need them to be, and if I could be who I needed to be, what would that look like?” You can figure that out for yourself. Then instantly you have a judge.
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Join Jordan as he takes you on a tour of the Museum of the Bible in the feature-length documentary "Logos & Literacy." The documentary explores the Bible's impact on society, including how it shapes our understanding of the world. Experts in history, theology, and philosophy join Jordan as he delves into the fascinating history and influence of the Bible. Don't miss out on the chance to watch "Logos & Literacy," available only on DailyWire+.
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Family Dinners, Shared Meals, And The Importance Of Social Engagement
Imagine your family has a story. The story is where we came from, where we are, and where we are going together as a unit. Then each of the individuals within that story has a story. What you are doing in those family dinners — that interaction time — is taking the individual story threads and you are weaving them together to make the collective story that keeps everyone up-to-date and on the same page and able to empathize in a deep manner. … I think the other thing that is really important about the shared meal is that human beings are really weird creatures because we share food. We are social eaters. People do not eat well if they eat on their own. It is deeply rooted in us — that idea of sharing food. Part of the extended process of socialization is to get everybody to sit down around food, to be polite and thankful for the fact of the food, to enjoy that, but then also to be able to give and take all that is being shared.
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Different Forms Of Intelligence
In this lecture, I discuss that though there are different forms of intelligence (extraversion and neuroticism, for example), there are ways to discern their correlations and differences using practical utility and statistics.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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