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This week's edition will discuss addressing minor issues in marriage, Russia, Ukraine and the West, and how to take control of your life.
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Do Not Hide Unwanted Things In The Fog
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Here is a thought, a terrifying and dispiriting thought, to motivate improvement in your marriage—to scare you into the appalling difficulties of true negotiation. Every little problem you have every morning, afternoon, or evening with your spouse will be repeated for each of the fifteen thousand days that will make up a forty-year marriage. Every trivial but chronic disagreement about cooking, dishes, housecleaning, responsibility for finances, or frequency of intimate contact will be duplicated, over and over, unless you successfully address it.
Perhaps you think (moment to moment, at least) that it is best to avoid confrontation and drift along in apparent but false peace. Make no mistake about it, however: you age as you drift, just as rapidly as you age as you strive. But you have no direction when you drift, and the probability that you will obtain what you need and want by drifting aimlessly is very low.
Things fall apart of their own accord, but the sins of men speed their deterioration: that is wisdom from the ages.
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Russia, Ukraine and the West | Frederick Kagan | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | #240
This episode was recorded on February 27, 2022.
In this episode, I discuss the nature of the conflict that has taken the world by storm over the last 5 days—Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine and the ongoing resistance of its citizens. Dr. Kagan is a wealth of information on military history, geopolitics, Putin's relationship with the USSR (which his father helped defend) and Ukrainian sovereignty, and other aspects of what’s most certainly a moment in human history that won’t be forgotten soon.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson:
“The Ukrainians are entrenching and fighting back with a ferocity that was unexpected. Well, they have more to lose then in some sense than the Russians have to gain, so that’s always dangerous. Inequality in morality in warfare and that’s not to be underestimated.”
Frederick Kagan:
“The Ukrainians are fighting like lions, they are fighting like heroes…I mean I know Ukrainians and I thought they would fight, they are fighting hard and effectively. I’m certain Putin didn’t expect them to."
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Take Control of Your Life | Modern Wisdom Podcast: #307
Dr. Peterson:
"There's no way you can get your surroundings in order without simultaneously getting yourself in order."
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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