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In this week’s edition, I explain why a schedule is imperative to fulfillment and how to go about creating one. Then, I talk with actor, author, and comedian Rob Schneider about the unpredictable changes to both major political parties during the last presidential election, the fall of Hollywood and celebrity culture, and personal cost in the face of clear purpose. From the archives, I revisit a lecture I gave about Dostoyevsky, the process of thinking, and the ways in which you look at and act in the world.
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Advice
Schedule Your Time And Create A Calendar
Scheduling your time is extraordinarily useful. First, you should develop a long-term plan, a vision. You need to figure out what you are aiming at and why — and how you are going to break that down into the weeks and days. This allows you to know how to orient yourself so you can begin designing your days.
Many people profess to hate a schedule or calendar, to which I would respond that they are probably using it wrong. If you resonate with that, you are likely using a calendar as an external tyrant that is telling you how to be a conventionally good person and heaping arbitrary responsibilities on you each day. But that is not how you should use a schedule.
Instead, you should use a schedule to design the day you would most like to have, which will include accepting some responsibility for making progress to keep your life from collapsing into chaos. You should also schedule activities you want to engage in that day as well. You want to design that day you desire, a day that would be good for you — one you feel that you have moved yourself ahead toward your valued goals and kept chaos under control. If you are using a schedule properly, it can be your friend — and a mechanism to increase your capacity to concentrate. It leads to higher productivity.
If you are exceptionally scattered, then you can train yourself, for example, to read without distraction. Perhaps for the next week, you read for 10 minutes a day and limit distractions. When you are successful with that, you can try 12 minutes a day, then 15 minutes a day, and so forth. The trick is to set a goal for yourself that is slightly beyond your current level of performance — enough to be challenging and worthwhile if you accomplish it, but not so difficult that you are likely to fail.
Planning is unbelievably useful, but schedule the life you want.
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In the eighth episode of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s “The Gospels” series, the group discusses Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem and explores how glory and suffering are part of the human experience. Through Holy Week's shadows, they glimpse a profound truth: real transformation demands we face darkness while keeping faith in what's highest. Watch “Holy Week and The Last Supper” as they examine how the events of Holy Week illuminate the cost of transformation and voluntarily confronting the darkest opposition. “The Gospels” is available exclusively on DailyWire+.
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Psychology And ‘Pinocchio’
“Pinocchio” is a story that includes an initiation ritual and a journey to the depths (the underworld). It is a story of the consequence of a collapse of previous personality and the disintegration of that previous personality into a chaotic state prior to rebirth.
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Hollywood Undone And The Return To Comedy | Rob Schneider | EP 513
In this episode, I am joined by actor, author, and comedian Rob Schneider. We discuss the unpredictable changes to both major political parties during the last presidential election, the fall of Hollywood and celebrity culture (by their own hand), how new and independent media finally broke the machine, and why Rob began speaking politically in spite of personal cost and sacrifice.
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Moral Actions For Weak Reasons Are Cowardly
In this clip from a lecture I gave to students years ago, I discuss Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his novel “Crime and Punishment.” Dostoyevsky created characters who gain a sense of victory by arguing against another to the point of making the opposing argument as weak as possible, making them characters who portray a pathetic way of thinking. True thinking is the process of adopting the opposite position of your supposition and making it as strong as possible so that you can pose your perspective against the strongest. Dostoyevsky implemented that process by creating and positioning characters who stand for the antithesis of his own beliefs as the strongest, smartest, and sometimes most admirable. He created characters whose experiences will change the way you look at and act in the world.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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