November 13th 2023 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, I discuss the tragedies of life and how to be prepared for them when they come. Then, I talk with author Adam Smith about his new book “Lost and Broken: My Journey Back from Chronic Pain and Crippling Anxiety.” From the archives, I revisit a video in which I explicate the value of rewarding yourself for incremental improvements toward desired goals.

Advice

Prepare For The Catastrophes That Are Sure To Come

There are floods coming. You can be sure of that. That is absolutely 100% certain. Some of them are going to be personal. Some of them are going to be familial. Some of them are going to be social and political and economic. Are they going to be catastrophes for you? Or are you going to ride them out? Are you going to prepare? 

The first issue might be, do you have your act together well enough to see them coming with enough advanced warning so that you can take proper measures? Maybe just to sidestep it. Maybe just do not go where the flood is going to be. That is a simple thing, but maybe you do not have that luxury, so it is going to be a catastrophe. Maybe someone in your family is going to get really, really sick. Maybe there is just a tiny pathway through that so everything does not fall apart. It does not end in divorce. It does not end in death. It does not end in sorrow. It does not end in catastrophe. 

The margin of error is slim to virtually zero, and every imperfection that you bring to that situation is going to increase the probability that tragedy is going to turn into something indistinguishable from hell, and that is coming. It is coming your way — absolutely, certainly. Since it is coming your way, maybe the best thing to do is to put yourself together so that when it comes, it can be the least amount of awful possible. 

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, an academic professor for many years, is a master of lectures. Getting back to his roots, he took his talent and skill of teaching to the stage on his Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life tour starting in 2022. With no two lectures the same, Jordan covers popular topics and new content which are now available even after the tour’s end. Join DailyWire+ to see more exclusive content not available elsewhere.

Order, Chaos, And Negotiations In Marriage

Any place in your house that you have not attended to in detail — and that might mean cleaned off with a cloth or brushed or sorted or organized or arrayed — is not part of the habitable order that is good. It is part of chaos still, and you react to it as if it is unfamiliar and foreign. That makes you uncomfortable and makes you not feel at home. The advantage you gain by pouring your attention into every nook and cranny in your house is that the house becomes familiar. The house turns into a home and that is all a consequence of dedicated attention. If you jointly dedicate your attention to that, then it is the house that you both inhabit. If you do that properly, you produce a better house as a consequence of your dialogue than either of you would have produced in isolation, even if you would have got exactly what you wanted. That is a really good deal, and that is a good mantra for negotiations.

Difficult Conversation As The Precondition To Progress | Adam Smith | EP 395

I sit down with lawyer, U.S. representative, and author Adam Smith. We discuss his new book “Lost and Broken: My Journey Back from Chronic Pain and Crippling Anxiety.” From this we explore the differences between cognitive and behavioral therapy, the dogmatization of nuance, the rise of “harm reduction” in the current era of identity politics, and the ideal goal of argument: it’s much more than just scoring points.