March 11th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, I discuss why rest must be a part of life; without it, we are hindered from appreciating life. Then, best-selling author, ex-Airforce officer, and psychologist Rob Henderson joins me to talk about his upbringing in the foster care system, attending Yale and Cambridge, and his thoughts on family structure and “luxury beliefs.” Then, from the archives, I articulate what has been most impactful about the intellectual dark web: courage.

Advice

Why You Must Rest To Appreciate Life

I have done counseling with people who were spectacularly successful, and they were often workaholics — the type of people who would work nonstop 80-hour weeks. We spent time discussing how much you should work. One answer is you just work until you die and exhaust yourself, but that is not a good idea. You do not want to do so much work that the amount of work you do interferes with the amount you could still do. If you work like mad for two weeks and then have to be in a hospital bed for a month, that obviously is not very productive. So you have to figure out how much you can work diligently and then how much you have to recuperate so you can get back up and work again. 

You can toil for six days because you have to work, but you should rest at least one day out of seven; otherwise, you do not appreciate life. That might be part of it. Plus, I think it is a matter of iterability because part of what defines morality is a capacity to repeat something. If something is properly structured in a moral manner, then you can do it over and over again without any degeneration, such as in a relationship. 

If your relationship is negotiated, you can continue to negotiate it and have a relationship that lasts a long time. You can do it today, next week, next month, and next year. You can maintain it. This is wisdom that has been garnered over time. Remember, even God needed to take a break and appreciate what was going on; it is certainly not such a bad thing for people to follow that pattern. 

That is good for modern people to know because, even though we are very wealthy, our capacity to relax is not exactly what it could be — and I think that is really hard on people. 

I am pleased to announce new dates for my "We Who Wrestle With God" tour.

May 14th - Phoenix, AZ - A second show has been added after the first sold out. Tickets for this show are now on sale.
June 18th - Sao Paulo, Brazil
June 20th - Porto Alegre, Brazil
June 22nd - Santiago, Chile
June 25th - Mexico City, Mexico

The presale will go live for the above shows on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024. I hope to see you there.

In “Faith as an Adventure,” episode 1 of the 17-episode in-depth analysis of Exodus, Jordan and his roundtable explore the themes of freedom against tyranny, God’s allowance of evil, and faith as an adventure within the first three chapters of Exodus. They seek to answer the question of whether one should take the easy path even if it is wrong or do what is right despite it being hard. Stream Exodus on DailyWire+ today. 

Andrew Klavan On Finding ‘The Joy Of My Joy’ After A ‘Horrible Darkness’

People are rarely traumatized by a brush with death, and they are routinely traumatized by a brush with malevolence. So even on those grounds, you can see that the reality of evil is more trenchant and salient than the reality of death. So that Freudian argument? It is just not right. He got that wrong.

From Abuse & Poverty To Total Prosperity | Rob Henderson | EP 429

This week, I speak with best-selling author, ex-Airforce officer, and psychologist Rob Henderson. We discuss Rob’s tumultuous upbringing within the California foster care system, the lived and observed transformations of social status and class as he ascended to Yale and Cambridge, how his thoughts on family structure and “luxury beliefs” developed, and why bookstores won’t host him for his tour.