This week, I discuss how responsibility can give peace and how meaning counteracts suffering...
** Mondays of Meaning
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September 25th 2023 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,
This week, I discuss how responsibility can give peace and how meaning counteracts suffering. Then, I talk with Peter Arcidiacono, who served as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court cases SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, examining the role race played in the admissions process at both institutions. From the archives, I take a look at the human psyche and John Milton’s warning in "Paradise Lost."
Advice
To Find Meaning And Feel Peace, Adopt Responsibility
Start with the presumption that there is a baseline of suffering in life. That can be exaggerated as a consequence of human failing, malevolence, betrayal, self-betrayal, and deceit — all those things we do to each other and ourselves that we know are not good that amplifies the suffering. That is sort of the baseline against which you have to work. Contemplation of that often makes people hopeless and depressed and anxious and overwhelmed. They have their reasons, but you need something to put up against that, and what you put up against that is meaning.
Meaning is actually the instinct that helps you guide yourself through that catastrophe, and most of that meaning is to be found in the adoption of responsibility. Think about when you have a clear conscience first because that is a good thing to aim at, which is something different than happiness. You feel that you have justified your existence, so you are not waking up at 3:00 in the morning in a cold sweat thinking about all the terrible things you have involved yourself in — or what opportunity you lost or the things that you have let go that you should have capitalized on. If you think about the times when you are at peace with yourself with regards to how you are conducting yourself in the world, it is almost always conditions under which you have adopted responsibility.
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** From The Archives
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When I read Milton’s "Paradise Lost," I was studying tyranny. In it, Satan decides what he knows is sufficient and believes he does not need the transcendent (the domain outside what you know). Milton’s warning was that the rational mind that generates a production and then worships it as if it is absolute, immediately occupies hell.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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