This week, I discuss the initial stages of forming relationships in a behavioral manner.
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January 29th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, I discuss the initial stages of forming relationships in a behavioral manner. Then, I speak with Derick Cooper, CEO of QOL Medical, about immunological systems, patterns of behavior, metaphysics, and the trait most often associated with entrepreneurial success. From the archives, I look back on a lecture in which I explain what Nietzsche foresaw would destabilize Western civilization.
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How To Engage In The Initial Stages Of Forming Relationships
Benjamin Franklin once said that when you first move into a neighborhood, you should ask one of your immediate neighbors for a very small favor. Doing so initiates reciprocal trade and creates movement in the proper direction. People like to be of service, so if you ask someone for a very small favor, you put yourself in their debt. You can also reciprocate because they are afforded the opportunity to show themselves in their best light. You allow them to easily indicate that they’re positive, friendly, and willing to do something for someone else. They will be happy about that. Then, you are in their debt, so you can offer to do them a favor.
There are other ways to form relationships. If you move to a new neighborhood, for example, find a local cafe. Introduce yourself to the owner and the staff and tell them you have moved into the neighborhood. By going there once or twice a week at a regular time, you will become a known figure and start to be comfortable there. You can also do this with people at your local store so that it is no longer foreign territory and you are no longer alienated. But you must establish these routines for socialization; otherwise, you are in enemy territory — or, at least, unknown territory — and that is extremely hard on you physiologically because you do not know if you are surrounded by friends or foes.
To introduce yourself, look the person in the eye because by watching their face, you can see how they are reacting. Your unconscious socialization abilities will kick in if you attend to the right cues. Make sure you are paying attention to them — and not to yourself. Everyone responds positively to that. If they don’t, then maybe it’s time to find a different corner store.
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A Practical Approach To Living Longer With Improved Health
As a behavioral psychologist, you learn it is very difficult for people to change their attitudes, actions, and lives. We all know this because we might tell ourselves, for example, to exercise, and we might be well supplied with arguments for why that is a good idea, but that does not necessarily mean we learn how to incorporate an exercise routine into our lives. There are many reasons for that, one being that exercise is difficult, but it is also often the case that people do not form a strategy and break the problem down into steps that are simple enough to actually implement. So as a behavioral psychologist, you look at the simplest possible change that produces the maximum possible benefit.
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How To Manage Your Job, Your Company, Your Life | Derick Cooper | EP 417
This week, I talk with the CEO of QOL Medical, Derick Cooper, about how immunological systems confront pathogens and store information, the trait most associated with entrepreneurial success, the complicated patterns of behavior that scale from cellular interaction to metaphysics, and how a spirit of reciprocity can be utilized to uplift the individual as well as the community and society.
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** From The Archives
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When A Religion Loses An Arm And A Leg
When Nietzsche proclaimed God to be dead, he did not do so in triumph. He was too nuanced a thinker to be so simple-minded. He knew if our articulated knowledge is out of sync with our dream, we become dissociated internally: What we think, we do not act out; what we act out, we do not dream. This produces a sickness of the spirit, yet ideologies are not the answer and can lead to catastrophe, which Nietzsche foresaw. By destroying our representation (the God ideal), he knew we would destabilize.
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