Today's Mondays of Meaning discusses motivation and how to solve Canada's biggest problems with Pierre Poilievre.


** Mondays of Meaning
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May 16th, 2022 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,

This week's edition will discuss motivation and how to solve Canada's biggest problems with Pierre Poilievre.


** How Your Motivational Systems Work.
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Imagine you have a starving rat, and it knows that it's got food down the end of a corridor; you can put a little spring on its tail and measure how hard it pulls [towards the food]. That gives you an indication of its motivational force.

Now, imagine the starving rat trying to get to some food, and you have a little spring on his tail, and you waft in some cat odour. Now that the rat is starving and wants to get out of there, he will try to pull even harder towards the food. Getting away and moving forward are separate motivational systems. If you can add them together, it's real potent. And part of the reason why in the Future Authoring exercise you're asked to outline the place you'd like to end up, and the place that you could end up if you let everything fall apart, is so that your anxiety chases you and your approach systems pull you forward. You're maximally motivated then.

That's important because otherwise, you can be afraid of pursuing the things you want to pursue. And so then the fear inhibits you, as the promise pulls you forward. But that makes you weak because you're afraid, so you want to get your fear behind you, pushing you.


** Monday Reflections
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“You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.” (Share this on Twitter ([link removed]) )

“It’s easier to put off until tomorrow what needs to be done today, and drown the upcoming months and years in today’s cheap pleasures.”
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“Each person’s private trouble cannot be solved by a social revolution, because revolutions are destabilizing and dangerous.”
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** This Week On The Podcast
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How to Solve Canada’s Biggest Problems With Pierre Poilievre (Conservative PM Candidate) | Jordan Peterson | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | #253

This conversation was recorded on May 9, 2022.

Pierre Poilievre, a life-long conservative, is running to be the Prime Minister of Canada. Pierre has served as a trusted senior cabinet minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government and has served as a Member of Parliament for seven terms. He grew up in Calgary and graduated from the University of Calgary with a degree in International Relations.

We discussed his election efforts, Canada’s energy infrastructure and economic policy, as well as Poilievre’s mission to tackle the housing crisis, lower the cost of living, defund Canadian media, and develop Canadian natural resources.
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Pierre Poilievre:

"The central underlying illness is a monstrous growth in the power and cost of the state at the expense of the agency and freedom of the people."


** From The Archives
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How to Increase Motivation | Jordan B. Peterson
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Dr. Peterson:

"Imagine that you have two teams, and you get them to set goals. One team sets goals for their corporate productivity, and the other team sets goals for their life. You match them head to head over some time and see which one comes ahead and what happens is the people who set goals for their life beat the people who set goals for the company. There's a variety of other literature that supports that kind of hypothesis, but it's very worthwhile thinking that through."
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Thank you for reading,

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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