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In this week’s edition, I explain how to measure the right amount of self-esteem based on who you are today and who you could be in the future. Then, I talk with Glenn Greenwald about the war on information, specifically regarding how social moralism, religious rhetoric, conceptual safety, and false compassion have been used and propagandized to reshape the Western world. From the archives, I look back at part of a lecture in which I discuss facing obstacles in your path forward.
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Advice
Assess Yourself Fairly
You might ask how much self-esteem you should have. That is a very complex question because you can clearly have way too much. That is what would make you a narcissist. So I would say your self-esteem should be roughly equivalent to the esteem in which you are held by members of your society, such as your family, because they are judging you, at least in part, on your competence. You should not think that you are more competent than you are, and you should not think that you are less competent than you are. You should think that you are as competent as you are. Sometimes that means you are not competent at all because you do not know what you are doing, and sometimes it means that you are quite competent.
It is complicated by the fact that you should also regard yourself not only as who you are but also as who you could be. So, if you are of lowly dominance status, for example, if you are young and you are starting your life, the fact that there is a lot of potential you still are able to manifest should tilt the self-assessment balance in your favor to a fair degree.
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One of the first series Jordan produced with The Daily Wire is "Dragons, Monsters, and Men." In this four-part series, he uncovers how to discover your purpose and slay the dragons in your way. This series focuses on the pursuit of greatness. To see more content with Jordan, join DailyWire+ for exclusive content unavailable anywhere else.
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Jung, Nietzsche, And Freud: The Psychoanalysts In Philosophical Debate
Carl Jung was a strange guy in many ways. Extraordinarily imaginative. He could get lost in daydreams and was a tremendously powerful visualizer and a lot of what he discovered was a consequence of engaging in long-term elaborated fantasies, and in these fantasies, he could have conversations with figures of his imagination and communicate with them. I had a client at one point who was a very prolific dreamer, and she could talk to her characters in her dreams and ask them what they meant symbolically — and they would tell her. That was really something. I have only seen one person who was capable of doing that. I do not know if it helped her that much, in the final analysis, but she could do it.
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A Prison Is Being Constructed Inside Your Brain | Glenn Greenwald | EP 391
This week, I sit down with author, journalist, and political commentator Glenn Greenwald. We discuss the war on information: how social moralism, religious rhetoric, conceptual safety, and false compassion have been used and propagandized to reshape the Western world into a good versus bad, red versus blue polarity. We also explore the human need for meta-narratives, the basis of morality, and the case for God in a world that offers nihilism.
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Anomalies
Because you structure your behavior in such a way that you avoid situations where something wildly anomalous might occur, it seems as though almost everything that blocks you from a goal is a novel occurrence. When you encounter an obstacle, the path forward is blocked — and you are faced with a mystery. That mystery affects what you think.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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