January 1st 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, as we step into the New Year, I analyze the initial steps in the process of developing a vision. Then, I talk with longevity and chronic pain expert, Dr. Adeel Khan, about how he helped treat my wife Tammy and I for chronic pain, how gene-editing via stem cells will be the inevitable future of medicine, and other health-related topics. From the archives, I return to a segment of a lecture I gave a few years ago in which I discuss the meaningfulness that comes from orienting yourself toward a goal.  

Advice As We Step Into The New Year

Develop A Vision 

How do you develop a vision? Think about how you would like your life to be. Make it practical. This is how you bring heaven down to earth, which means to make the abstract practical, and that is always very useful. 

What do you want? You can ask yourself that. If you could have what you want, what would that be? We could throw out some possibilities: People trust you, people respect you, and you deserve the trust and the respect. People can rely on you. You are good for yourself, and you are good for other people. There is productive, generous peace that reigns around you. If you can think of something better, pursue that. But this is a good start.

To move past the abstract, you have to consider how you might conduct yourself in order for that to occur. One way of approaching moving past the abstract is to differentiate. If I ask what the purpose of your life is, that is a pretty abstract question so I would probably get a pretty general answer. You could answer by saying your purpose is to be willing to adopt the spirit of challenge in relationship to life's vicissitudes. Yet that is still pretty abstract because how would you go about doing that? You have to differentiate it. That is the bringing of the divine message down into the realm of practical applicability. How do you make that principle real in your own life?

One way of making it practical and real is by identifying where you find significance in your life. Then you can envision participating in this process. 

I’m excited to announce my "We Who Wrestle with God" tour. I’ll be traveling all across the U.S. in the first half of 2024. I’m going to be discussing some of the ideas I’ve been working through in my forthcoming book. Tickets are now available. Click below to find out more information and purchase tickets.

Jordan’s “Vision & Destiny” series is a proper way to begin the New Year, available for streaming on DailyWire+. In this 5-part series, Jordan outlines how to create a vision for your future and engage in transformation to move forward. Developing a vision begins with identifying your purpose for a greater long-term goal — so begin 2024 by creating your vision. Stream the series exclusively on DailyWire+. 

Commit To A Long-Term Plan To Have The Adventure Of Your Life

There is a responsible adventure to your life. You are not all you could be, and there is pain in that. A certain amount of judgment is necessary — and even a certain amount of exclusion — because what is insufficient about you, in some sense, should not be allowed to propagate further. But if it is conjoined with encouragement, you can be in a rough situation yet still discover some things about yourself that are virtuous and good — and actually pretty powerful. If you made those more manifest, you could dispense with a lot of immaturity and misery, and you could expand yourself out into life physically and psychologically. 

Keeping Death At Bay | Dr. Adeel Khan | EP 409

In this episode, I sit down in person with longevity and chronic pain expert, Dr. Adeel Khan. We discuss how Adeel helped treat my wife Tammy and I for chronic pain, how gene-editing via stem cells will be the inevitable future of medicine, the doomed nature of restriction based dieting, the physiological basis behind depression, and the current state of research giving new insights into longevity.