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This week's edition will discuss writing, investigating your dark side to take control over your life, and facing your fears.
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If You Can Think, Speak, and Write, You Are Absolutely Deadly.
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Learn to write because writing is thinking formalized.
First, you need a problem. A problem that grips you so that you feel a desire to investigate. The next thing you need to do is have something to say about the issue. And reading is brilliant for that. You should read as much as you can about how to address the problem you have.
Now you have new information at your disposal, and it’s your job to elegantly formulate that - while being precise in your word choice. You then organize your sentences correctly. And your paragraphs. Hopefully, now the whole thing is coherent enough to make sense.
While this is happening, you are sharpening your tools and integrating your personality at the highest and most abstract level of organization. You’re learning to think. And you improve your ability to think by learning to write. Pick some severe problems and learn to write very, very carefully.
If you are a competent writer, speaker - communicator - you have all of the authority and competence that there is.
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“If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not.” (Share this on Twitter)
“Always place your becoming above your current being.” (Share this on Twitter)
“It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world—a handyman’s dream if ever there was one—is to fix yourself.” (Share this on Twitter)
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Investigating The Shadow | Robert Greene | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | #237
This episode was recorded on November 11, 2021.
This episode focuses on human nature and the principles surrounding strategy, power, and seduction with Robert Greene. We also discuss the motivations behind power, deceptive strategies, Robert’s many jobs before settling as an author, psychopathy, manipulation, agreeableness, feeling guilt over being ambitious, channeling your shadow, and much more.
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson:
“One of the things you learn as a cognitive-behavioral psychologist is that you have to nail things down to changeable behavior to make progress."
Robert Greene:
“Religion isn't this kind of milk toast thing that people think it is nowadays. It was initially extremely powerful reaction to human vulnerability, to our weakness in this immense cosmos with all its powerful forces."
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Face Your Fears | Jordan B. Peterson
Dr. Peterson:
"Your country is your greatest friend and worst enemy because it squashes you into conformity and demands that you act in a particular manner. It reduces your individuality to that element tolerated by everyone else, constrains your potential in a single direction, and is tyrannical. However, it provides you with a place to be and all of the benefits that have accrued from the actions of your ancestors and all the other people you're associated with."
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Jordan B. Peterson on Parler
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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