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In this week’s edition, I address how to recover from mistakes you have made and learn from those mistakes for the benefit of your future. Then, I talk with social psychologist and author, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman about unrecognized implicit beliefs, natural human reactions, blame, motivation, and morality. From the archives, I look back on a lecture about facing your fears and taking opportunities offered to you. Also this week, I pay tribute to my longtime friend, Rex Murphy, and share my remembrance of our travels through Newfoundland, a trip which has now been released in a documentary for anyone to enjoy just as we did.
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Advice
Learn From Your Mistakes
Imagine you are taking yourself to task because you did some things wrong. List them out in your imagination or write them down. Then defend yourself as thoroughly as you possibly can. That does not mean you are trying to get yourself off the hook; it means that you are trying not to take yourself apart more than is necessary.
Let's assume there is some leftover compelling evidence you did something wrong. So figure out what you did wrong, what you would have done differently, and what you will do differently in the future.
The devil in your mind that is still accusing might be saying, “What you did is so terrible that you should never be let off the hook,” but I would say if that is the criteria you use for judgment, then everyone's doomed because everyone makes mistakes in their lives — and probably everybody makes the unforgivable mistakes. So if we are going to take ourselves apart about that, then we are all ruined. If you can set yourself up so that you have learned from the mistake you made so you would not repeat it, then you get to go on with your life.
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Essay Feature Release: Notes
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Last year, Jordan traveled to Newfoundland for five days, a trip documented by DailyWire+. While in Newfoundland, he and his wife, Tammy, received a guided tour of the ports and towns of Newfoundland, a hidden gem, with none other than the man who knew it deeply well: Mr. Rex Murphy.
Like all Canadians of Jordan's generation and older, he had known of Rex his whole life, particularly as a consequence of his decades of work on CBC radio and then on TV on The National, where he spent years as a commentator. Rex was a highly educated man, a master of the humanities, and had memorized far more poetry than most other educated men had read. Rex's capacity for spontaneous verbal verse shines during the tour, and Jordan's hope is that everyone will enjoy the trip as much as they did. Now, as an honorary tribute to Mr. Rex Murphy, it is available to watch and enjoy.
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Without Rex Murphy's Scrutiny, Our Politics Will Become Even More Barren
Rex Murphy was a man whose integrity and commitment to the uphill path was evident in every glance and utterance. He had the sharp visage and the gimlet eye of a bird of prey, although he was also kind and compassionate in exactly the manner that characterizes those who are truly good. Like other good people, in consequence, he saved his proclivity to extend a hand of care to the people who actually needed it, instead of waving his good-thinking proudly in the air like a banner of publicly-declared virtue.
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Trauma and the Demolition of Faith | Ronnie Janoff-Bulman | EP 449
In this week’s episode, I talk with social psychologist and author, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman. We discuss the matter that people are often unaware of the implicit beliefs they have; the human reactions to fear, disgust, pain, and the destruction of hope; why people blame themselves for truly random events; what the experts get wrong about motivation; and the difference between proscriptive and prescriptive morality.
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Here Is How We Make The World Better
In a lecture from 2017, I discussed the necessity of facing your fears. Doing so allows you to overcome your fears and meet your self-defined goals. When you voluntarily confront what you are afraid of, you get stronger. Knowing you are not everything you could be is a challenging reality to consider, but there is real promise in it because, perhaps, there is another way you could look at and act in the world so that what it reflects back to you is better than what it reflects back to you now. If your life is not everything it could be, ask yourself what would happen if you stopped wasting the opportunities that are in front of you.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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