In this week’s edition, I explain why having a partner helps you along life’s way.
** Mondays of Meaning
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August 19th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, I explain why having a partner helps you along life’s way. Then, I talk with journalist, author, and political commentator Douglas Murray about malevolent versus genuine protests, cultural institutions and false virtue, and the demoralization of the majority. From the archives, I revisit a conversation about how to create deep relationships.
Advice
Find The Meaningful Path And Stay On It
We are social creatures — deeply social creatures. You can tell that because you can take the most anti-social people, the most violent predatory and parasitic criminals, and punish them by putting them in solitary confinement. Think about that: The people who like other people the least, who are most likely to pathologize their social relationships, and who would be long-term, habitually sadistic, violent criminals find it virtually unbearable to be forced into isolation. We are unbelievably social. One of the corollaries of being miraculously social is that to be well-constituted, you have to be a harmonious player in a multidimensional symphony of social interaction.
It is very hard to stay on the straight and narrow without a partner who does not share your blindspots and correct you. Now, that is annoying because there is tussling about it; there is a fractious, adversarial element to that because you are married, and you do not see eye to eye — and thank God for that because sometimes in your foolish instance of being right, you are wrong and wrong in a way that will take you out. So you better have a partner who does not think the same way you do.
Fortunately, if you have a partner who does not think the same way you do, if you can get the dialogue flowing, that is a mutually corrective mechanism. Then, the truthful dialogue between partners in a marriage is actually the process by which sanity itself is generated, which I mean technically. You are too complex to regulate yourself — period — so you need other people to help you do that. If you have a wife or a husband, someone who knows you who is there for the long run, you can help each other find the meaningful path and stay on it.
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Why A Change Of Plans Causes Emotional Destabilization
When the structure you are using to organize the world reveals an inadequacy, then that destabilizes your emotions. Regardless, you need to be going somewhere, and there needs to be a pathway in order for you to feel good. If that plan is untenable or becomes destabilized, then you become flooded with negative emotions: frustration, disappointment, anger, and primarily anxiety. But all of those emotions sort of intermingle. You may feel anger because you have to fight your way through the obstacle; frustration because maybe you have to make a new plan; disappointment because you devoted work to the plan and it did not work out; and anxiety because now there are too many choices in front of you. So people do not like to have their plans disrupted. The reason for that is that their plans are directly associated with their emotional perception of the world.
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** On The Podcast
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A Call For The Sane - Beauty, Truth, & Purpose | Douglas Murray | EP 472
In this episode, journalist, author, and political commentator Douglas Murray joins me to discuss his current U.S. speaking tour, the difference between malevolent and genuine protests, the upending of cultural institutions at the altar of false virtue, and how the demoralization of the majority will only lead to further unrest.
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** From The Archives
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Relationship Advice From Experts On Consciousness
In a conversation with Tor Nørretranders earlier this year, I discussed what happens when we shed any self-imposed constraints, which are often created because we are afraid of our own entropy. For example, when I talked with my clients during marital counseling, I would ask them to identify why they were dissatisfied with their spouse; the goal was to help them understand they could seek what they were looking for within the confines of their own relationship. It is conceivable to draw interesting possibilities out of people where you may have only thought there was stultified actuality. You cannot substitute a presumption for a person. When you attend to someone in a deeper sense, they innately express love and openness more aptly.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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