This week, I explain why maintaining a tenable position in the hierarchy is crucial to your well-being.


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April 8th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, I explain why maintaining a tenable position in the hierarchy is crucial to your well-being. Then, I talk with entrepreneur, U.S. representative, and 2024 presidential candidate Dean Phillips about his suspended presidential campaign and the core issues facing America. From the archives, I look back on a previous tour stop when I discussed why certain things bother you from a psychoanalytical perspective.

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Take Your Place In The Hierarchy

If you want to take your place properly in the hierarchy, part of your goal is to be a good person. We have a very old system in our nervous systems that keeps track of where we are in hierarchies, and it regulates our emotions. If you are not a complete psychopath, then you have a place in a social hierarchy. You are admired, respected, and valued by other people — and the neurochemical system that keeps track of that regulates your other emotions.

If you are low on the totem pole, for whatever the reason happens to be — sometimes you deserve it or sometimes it is accidental — your serotonin levels plummet, and you feel much more negative emotion and much less positive emotion about everything. That is clinical depression. So, it is absolutely crucial that you maintain a tenable position in the hierarchy — not one of power but one of competence. Even if you are not in a position that is tenable, you must be moving upward toward one that is — because that gives you hope.

People hit runs of bad luck and situations that can take them out of life — unfortunate illnesses, betrayal, and so on. There is no shortage of randomness and horror that can wipe you out even if you are doing your best. But you do not have a better plan than to do your best, and it tends to work much better than you think it will. Hierarchies are set up on reciprocity, skill, and trust. Almost everywhere, if you go above and beyond the call of duty in an intelligent way —interpersonally, socially, and with regard to the diligence of your work, the truth of your attitude, and courage — that will work.


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

Why would encouragement not be the hallmark of love? Get your act together. Adopt some responsibility. Put your life together. Develop a vision. Expand yourself beyond the narrow confines that are causing your misery, and you can do it. You could do it; you should do it. The world would be better off if you did it. You would be doing better if you did it. Everything would work out better. Why would we not work to make everything work out better? You are the person who could do it.
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The 2024 Presidency, Joe Biden’s Age, Gigantism, & Facing Reality | Dean Phillips | EP 437

This week, I sit down with entrepreneur, U.S. representative, and 2024 presidential candidate Dean Phillips. We discuss his now-suspended presidential campaign, the monolithic opposition he faced getting platformed, the reality of President Joe Biden’s age, the core issues facing America right now, and the comparative pathologies of Republicans and Democrats.
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** From The Archives
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Psychoanalysis: Why Do Certain Things Bother You?

While you may wish some of the things that bother you would not anymore, the questions to ask are: Why does this thing bother me? And why can I not control it? The psychoanalysts were the first to describe this in a technically sophisticated manner, saying that the thing that bothers you is autonomous and has a will and an agency; it forces you to attend, despite yourself. Why? Because that is your destiny calling.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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