January 31st, 2022 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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This week's edition will discuss commitment, why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines and your greatest enemy.

The people I knew who finished their undergraduate degrees or trade programs were better for it. Not “good,” necessarily. Not functioning optimally. Not necessarily thrilled with their choices or devoid of doubt and misgiving. Not even certain to continue in pursuit of what they had studied. But far better than those who withdrew and drifted. The commitments and the sacrifices thereby entailed matured those who endured and made them better people. So, what is the conclusion?

There are many things to which we might commit ourselves. A case can be made for the arbitrary and even meaningless nature of any given commitment, given the plethora of alternatives, given the corruption of the systems demanding that commitment. But the same case cannot be made for the fact of commitment itself: those who do not choose a direction are lost. It is far better to become something than remain anything but become nothing.

This is despite all the genuine limitations and disappointments that becoming something entails. Everywhere, the cynic despairs, are bad decisions. But someone who has transcended that cynicism (or more accurately, replaced it with an even more profound doubt— that is, the doubt that doubt itself is an ultimately reliable guide) objects: the worst decision of all is none.

“Sort yourself out.” (Share this on Twitter)

“The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power.” (Share this on Twitter)​

“If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.”(Share this on Twitter)

Needle Points | Norman Doidge | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - S4: E79

Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it. Link to article

Your Greatest Enemy May Surprise You | Jordan B. Peterson
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Dr. Peterson:

"Identity to me is practical. It's a dramatic role that you play out in the world. And while playing that out, it has to furnish you with a life— which means that it has to be negotiated with other people. When you're a very young child, you first start to play with who you are; you live in a fantasy world. So that means identity has to expand beyond its egocentric focus and increasingly be negotiated in the social world. "