** Mondays of Meaning
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February 3rd 2025 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s episode, I discuss two of the five personality traits and ways to improve the negative aspects of each. Then, I talk with physician and lawyer, Dr. Simone Gold, about her journey to become both a doctor and lawyer, the repercussions she experienced after speaking out during the COVID pandemic, and why she remains determined. From the archives, I revisit a segment from a lecture in which I explain the stories of the Bible through a phenomenological perspective.

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Improve The Negative Aspects Of Your Personality Traits ([link removed])

Two of the five personality traits are agreeableness and neuroticism. Both have positive and negative aspects, but you can improve upon the more negative ones.

People who are high in neuroticism tend toward anxiety and emotional pain; they are more likely to respond negatively to complexity and uncertainty. If you are high in neuroticism, you can stabilize your sleep/wake cycles to help regulate your anxiety. Go to bed and eat at the same times. If you are hungry and stressed, your insulin production system becomes destabilized. If you are feeling particularly anxious, it would be worth trying to eat something other than carbs, which may help stabilize your insulin production system. And protect yourself from sources of bad news and shield yourself from an onslaught of negative information, especially when it is not necessary. You need not bury your head in the sand, but constant exposure to catastrophe can often destabilize people — and that is not helpful to you.

Being low in agreeableness should not destabilize your emotions but could interfere in your relationships with other people because you may tend to take other people’s feelings into consideration less than often. So, make attempts to do things for other people, and make that a practice. Perhaps once a week, consciously do someone a favor or give someone a gift; practice being compassionate and polite. These actions will expand your personality rather than transform it. Being tough-minded, skeptical, and competitive, as disagreeable people often are, can be good, but taking other people’s perspectives into account more often is as well. If your relationships improve, your emotional stability likely will too.


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In Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s new series, “The Gospels,” eight scholars from radically different backgrounds gather with him to examine the early life of Jesus and confront essential questions that haunt our era: What happens when a culture abandons its foundational stories? How might ancient wisdom illuminate our current crisis of meaning? In the first episode, they examine the nativity, childhood, and baptism of Jesus, discovering the Gospels’ texts to hold transformative patterns that could guide our civilization through its current meaning crisis. Watch all episodes of “The Gospels” and stream the first for free on DailyWire+.
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Hope In, Through, And From Miracles — And The Miraculous In Peterson’s ‘Gospels’

When Jordan began his investigation into the Bible, he did so with humble curiosity, professing he came to it not knowing what he was doing and not having “a prior presumption of my superiority in any manner to the text.” He continues, “Now, that doesn’t mean I had any real attitude towards it except what in the world is this? And perhaps there’s something I can learn from it.” He has, both implicitly and explicitly, taught others during his own learning process — with a keen sense to aim at the highest.
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Courage In Controversy: Medical Tyranny & Jan 6th Riots | Dr. Simone Gold | EP 518

In this episode, I talk with physician and lawyer, Dr. Simone Gold. We discuss her personal story of becoming both a doctor and a lawyer, running an ER clinic through the Ebola scare, why she spoke out during the COVID pandemic, how the machine attempted to destroy her public image, January 6th, being raided and imprisoned by the U.S. Government, and why she will not back down.
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** From The Archives
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Biblical Stories Have A Phenomenological Truth

In this clip from one of my Biblical lectures, I explain why the Biblical stories have phenomenological truth. Phenomenologists study structures of consciousness. Phenomenology is the branch of philosophy that studies human experience, so for phenomenologists, everything a human experiences is real. In some sense, phenomenology is the study of what matters — rather than the study of matter. From a phenomenological perspective, things have meaning. And even a rationalist, cynic, or nihilist who says nothing has any meaning still runs into the problem of pain; pain undercuts that argument because it has meaning. There is no escaping from meaning. While you can demolish all the positive parts of meaning, attempting to think your way out of the negative parts is practically impossible. The stories in the Bible are phenomenological in that they concentrate on trying to elucidate the nature of human experience, which is not the same as the objective world. Rather, it is a form of truth.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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