October 25th, 2021 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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My observation is that if there is a tight relationship and one party is betrayed by the other (falling in love with another person), it's almost always irreconcilable. I've helped people try and struggle through that on both sides of the issue. The person who was betrayed and the person who did the betrayal. I have seen people grow up and not do it again. And this was in situations where their partner didn't know. In a couple of those situations, it seemed that it might even be described as a necessary experience for the person who did it. It helped them develop.

I am NOT justifying that behaviour, but life is complicated. However, I think society works better, all things considered, when you make a promise. And you stick to it. One of the things I learned from reading Jung was that there are things in a marriage that you can't have unless you're all in. I believe that. If there's a back door open, to begin with, or a back door opens, then I think there's something about the relationship that's lacking, at least. I think you pay a huge price for that.

"Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world." (Share this on Twitter)
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"You need to determine how to act toward yourself so that you are most likely to become and to stay a good person." (Share this on Twitter)
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"Your life becomes meaningful in precise proportion to the depths of the responsibility you are willing to shoulder." (Share this on Twitter)

Enlightenment and the Righteous Mind | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - S4E52: Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt

Dr. Peterson, Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt sit down to discuss various topics concerning society's function and creating the most stable systems for humans to prosper in, primarily by reviewing the examples history lends us.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson:

"If utopia is perfect and it can be obtained then any means are acceptable to bring it about. I can’t think of a more profound moral hazard than that.”

Steven Pinker:

“Ideally we are not looking for some foolish hope for the future, but, progress has taken place in the past so why should it stop going into the future?”

Jonathan Haidt:

“The processes that let us find truth have decayed in ways that might make the future very different from the past.”

Men Who Make The Worst Partners | Jordan B. Peterson
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"That's something that's very interesting because the degree to which the terrible part of the world manifests itself in your life is proportionate to how insufficient you are, and we don't know the full extent of that if you got your act together completely.

Maybe all the suffering would disappear from your life, or at least maybe all the unbearable suffering, and maybe all the suffering, or the unbearable suffering from the lives of people around you, too. And you already know that because there are people that you'll go to in a crisis that you can rely on and you know they'll help you. You wonder what the world would be like if you were like that and everyone else was like that too, we'd have a lot fewer crises."