This week, I explain the reason for limitations and why potential dissipates if it is not used.
** Mondays of Meaning
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March 18th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,
In this week’s edition, I explain the reason for limitations and why potential dissipates if it is not used. Then, I talk with Bishop Robert Barron about exploring religion, spiritual blocks to grace, and orchestrators of peace and love. From the archives, I discuss the matter that learning to write leads to learning to think, a sentiment Jocko Willink shares with me.
Advice
Utilize Your Potential
There is a deep existential lesson in the fact your being is limited, flawed, and fragile. You are like the genie in the little tiny lamp in “Aladdin”: You have immense potential, but you are constrained to a small living space. But because you have limitations, the plot of your life is the overcoming of those limitations. If you did not have limitations, there would not be a plot — and, maybe, there would be no life. So perhaps that is part of the reason you have to accept the fact you are flawed and insufficient and live with it; then, consider it a precondition for being. That is, at least, a reasonable idea.
Further, it is possible to allow your potential to disappear. When Peter Pan, for example, considers Captain Hook, he questions why he should grow up and sacrifice all the potential of childhood. The answer is that the potential will sacrifice itself if you do not utilize it as you mature. After all, you would just end up a 40-year-old lost boy, which is horrifying to behold. It would almost be as if you were the living corpse of a child. A 6-year-old 40-year-old is a little on the stale side by that point and certainly not the world’s happiest individual.
Your potential will disappear if you do not utilize it. You will age, so you might as well shape that potential in a particular direction and at least become something — no matter how limited — rather than nothing.
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In the feature-length documentary “Logos & Literacy,” Jordan explores the Museum of the Bible located in Washington, D.C., alongside the museum’s curators and Biblical scholars. They tour the museum’s exhibits while discussing the Bible’s role in the founding of civilization and how it still influences culture today. Take the tour with Jordan and these experts to delve into the history of the Bible. Stream “Logos & Literacy” exclusively on DailyWire+.
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Substitutes For Religion Are Meaningless
The core of a culture seems to be something that is essentially religious, by definition. If you look at what unites people across geography and time, there is some central conception of the world as spirit that brings people together implicitly and explicitly. And if you dispense with that, then what? You have demonstrated that you get people adopting rather odd beliefs. So that is a kind of heresy, essentially. There is an automatic tendency to produce heretical religions; that is the consequence. Maybe some of those are political, and they are fragmentary.
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True Stories That Drive Spiritual Growth | Bishop Barron | EP 431
In this episode, I sit down with author, speaker, and Bishop of the Dioceses of Winona-Rochester, Robert Barron, to discuss the use of new technologies to interpret and explore religion, the fallacy of self-deification, the spiritual blocks to the flow of grace, and the way to become an orchestrator of peace and love.
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** From The Archives
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Adventurous? You NEED To Learn How To Write
An often overlooked fact about Jocko Willink is that he majored in English while at the University of San Diego. In a conversation I had with him a couple of years ago, we talked about the importance of knowing how to write, and he shared how writing helped him as a Navy Seal and in combat tours. We know that if you learn how to write, you can learn how to think.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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