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In this week’s edition, I discuss the significance of finding gifts for which to be grateful in every situation. Then, in an intriguing conversation with comedian Matt Rife, we discuss the intent to make people laugh, the psychology of comedy, and cancel culture’s goal to garner attention via undue access, among other topics. From the archives, I look back on an interview segment about increasing people’s motivation, a topic I have been interested in for a long time.
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Advice
Practice The Virtue Of Gratitude
In our culture, we have lost the notion that virtue is something to cultivate. Gratitude is a virtue because it is something you should practice. However, it is not easy to be grateful because life involves pain and suffering; rather, it is easy to rationally justify resentment — but doing so is extremely toxic. Justifying resentment is, in a strange way, connected to deceit and arrogance. While there are all sorts of reasons to be timid and ungrateful, working against the evidence constitutes the core of the virtue.
Gratitude is a practice to engage in by observing in every situation what miraculous gift you are given within the context of that situation. Of course, that is extraordinarily difficult if the situation is dire. But even if the situation is dire, you could ask: Is it so self-evident that the best stance to prepare still would not be one of gratitude? That is a hard argument to shake.
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Making People Laugh: A Conversation With Matt Rife
I have been watching what you do on your specials, and you are continually interacting with the audience, which, correct me if I have this wrong, but some of the comedians that I have spoken to spend a lot of time preparing their sets and practicing. But what you are doing seems to be something that is much more akin to spontaneous wit. That is a dangerous thing to do.
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Rife For Cancellation | Matt Rife | EP 401
In this episode, I sit down in-person with recently “canceled” comedian Matt Rife. We discuss the incident in question, his viral response, the prominence of crowd work in his act, his early career start at the age of 15, the innovative use of social media to build his name, and the real reason he remains unapologetic for having a sense of humor.
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How To Increase Motivation
In this conversation with Jocko Willink, I discuss motivation. In order to be motivated, we must aim at what we think is valuable. First, you must get in the right mindset, and second, you must define a vision for your life. Motivation is easier if you can see less intrinsically interesting tasks as related in a directly intelligible way to goals you deem valuable.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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