This week, I pose thoughts on finding and pursuing the meaning amid suffering and the difficulties of life.
** Mondays of Meaning
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April 1st 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,
In this week’s edition, I address how to find and pursue meaning amid the suffering and difficulties of life. Then, I talk with bestselling author and journalist Michael Shellenberger about the revelations coming out with the WPATH files. From the archives, I address how to optimize the possibility of achieving success.
Advice
Find Meaning In Your Life
What are you leaving out of your life if you are leaving out responsibility? The answer might be: meaning. If you took on all the responsibility you could take on and faced all that you needed to face, who would you be? How would the world transform around you? If you did that even a little bit and your life got a fair bit better, the next question would be: What if you did that completely? Perfection is a horizon that constantly recedes, but it is not obvious what the upper limit to that is.
Picking up and bearing your suffering is an idea deeply rooted in the West. It is a truth. Hell is often thought to be a bottomless pit because no matter how bad things are, there is always a way to make them worse. So what do you do about that? You accept it. That is what life is like. Life is suffering. But what do you do in the face of that suffering? You start with yourself.
Get yourself together so you can stand up solidly so that people can rely on you. Lift a load — because then you can tolerate yourself. Pick something up and carry it. Make it heavy enough so that you recognize you are capable. When you do, you will develop some self-respect.
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The Problem Of Physical Death Was Solved Centuries Ago
You can learn to handle serpents, which is your best defense against serpents. That way, you have the benefits of being and you develop into someone simultaneously capable of bearing the weight of being. And I do not know if you can have being without it having a weight. It is possible that mortal limitation is the price you pay for being.
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** On The Podcast
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This Is One Of The Biggest Medical Malpractice Scandals In History | Michael Shellenberger | EP 435
In this episode, I sit down with bestselling author and journalist Michael Shellenberger to discuss the shocking revelations now being published in the WPATH files. Michael has covered climate for over 30 years, as well as AI, emergent technologies, the Twitter Files, and most recently, the WPATH files.
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** From The Archives
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Figure Out What Would Be Good for You And Then Aim For It
One main reason people’s lives are not what they would like them to be is that they do not know what they want, and further, they do not know what would be good for them. The solution is to figure out what would be good for you and then aim at it. Success is a narrow and unlikely line, and you will not stumble upon it — so you must set up the criteria for success. Then, you must reorient your life in every possible way to make the probability as certain as possible, which is a sacrificial idea. That is, in essence, the structure of existential reality.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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