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In this week’s edition, I address the pathway to transcending suffering and why you should aim for the highest possible good. Then, I talk with industry consultant, science activist, and past president of Greenpeace Canada (1971 to 1986), Dr. Patrick Moore. From the archives, I look back on a conversation I had with John Vervaeke about perception, viewing the world, and moving toward a goal.
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Advice
The Secret To A Meaningful Life
What are you aiming for? Your aim is the star and you can decide what it is, but there are some criteria. Your aim should be good for you, so that it facilitates you moving forward. It should be good for you in a way that is also good for your family and community. It should cover the domain of life. There are constraints on what you should regard as a value, but within those constraints, you have a choice.
People will carry a heavy load if they get to pick the load. But if you decide you won’t carry any load, then you will cause harm — because you will be bored. People are pack animals; they need to pull against a weight. That is the secret to a meaningful life. When you see people bear their suffering nobly, there is nothing but good in such an act.
Without a meaningful life, all you have is suffering, nihilism, despair, and self-contempt. But the pathway to less suffering is through suffering. It is, indeed, possible to make suffering worse. How so? Run away. How do you make it better? Confront it. Regardless of the fact that it is suffering, it is there. Suffering is a precondition for existence.
But you have something important to do. So confront suffering. That is the pathway to transcending it.
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My tour continues tonight in Fort Worth, Texas, alongside a special guest: Konstantin Kisin. Konstantin will join me until April 23rd. Tickets remain for upcoming shows. Click the button below to join us.
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Culture is changing — or attempting to change — what masculinity means. Because of this, there is a need for a voice of reason to ring true and address what it means to become a man. In “Dragons, Monsters, and Men,” Jordan provides a four-episode series on the importance of not lying, learning to negotiate, becoming a worthy man, and choosing one aim for which to devote yourself. To watch this and other content with Jordan, join DailyWire+ for exclusive content unavailable anywhere else.
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Wherever You Are Is Not As Good As It Could Be: Plot A Course Forward
There are deep reasons for how and why you perceive things as you do in the world. Perception is tightly related to and associated with action, movement forward, and emotion — and those things are very important to know. For example, you live in a map or a story, and because wherever you are is not as good as it could be, you go somewhere that is somewhat better. That can occur in different timeframes.
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Microplastics, Global Greening, & The Dangers Of Radical Alarmism | Dr. Patrick Moore | EP 439
In this episode, I talk with industry consultant, science activist, and past president of Greenpeace Canada (1971 to 1986), Dr. Patrick Moore. We discuss his time in Greenpeace, the historic timeline of global ice ages and climate change, the clear lies being peddled to promote alarmism, and how the woke left manipulates science (and scientists) to promote a falsely perceived and politically incentivized future catastrophe.
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Here’s What Your Brain Is Hiding From You | With John Vervaeke
In a conversation I had a little over a year ago with John Vervaeke, we discussed perception and viewing the world. Everything you see in the world has a unity of form in relationship to a goal. Further, your object perception constrains entropy by organizing the world into categories that are functionally relevant to goals that you maintain explicitly or implicitly. Then, of course, you experience positive emotion when moving toward a goal.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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