Mondays of Meaning

May 30th, 2022 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,

This week's edition will discuss friendship, how the Bible shaped the world we live in, and how to create a community.

How to Tell Who Your True Friends Are.

Here's how to tell who your true friends are. If you’re starting to put your life together and you have friends that object, those are not friends.

Here are two hallmarks of a friend:

1. A friend is someone you can tell bad news to.

They won’t tell you why you’re an idiot, and they won’t interfere with your suffering. They’ll just listen, and maybe they’ll suffer along with you. And they won’t tell you some worse thing that happened to them.

2. But a friend is also someone you can tell good news to.

They will say, “Wow! In this vale of tears, some good happened to you. Great, man. Wonderful. I hope ten more things like that happen.”

And they’re not envious, jealous and one-upping you.

If you’re trying to get your life together, and your friends get in the way, that’s actually really useful for you because you’ve now identified who your real friends aren’t.

You might think, “Well, I can’t give them up.” Not only can you, you should and it would be better for them.

Because if they’re aiming down, and they want you going down with them, there’s nothing good about what’s happening to them, and there’s certainly nothing good about that for you.

Monday Reflections

““Say what you mean, so that you can find out what you mean. Act out what you say, so you can find out what happens. Then pay attention. Note your errors. Articulate them. Strive to correct them. That is how you discover the meaning of your life.” (Share this on Twitter)

“If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.” (Share this on Twitter)

“Intolerance of others’ views—no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be—is not simply wrong. In a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse. It is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or possibly dangerous.” (Share this on Twitter)

This Week On The Podcast

How the Bible Shaped the World We Live In | Vishal Mangalwadi & Jordan Peterson | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast | #257

This episode was recorded on April 28th,2022.

Vishal Mangalwadi and I sit down to discuss the history of India and the role the Bible played in shaping India as a modern country. We explored the influence of missionaries, exploitation, slavery, and power, widow burning and infanticide, the revolutionary nature of the distribution of the biblical writings, and more.

Vishal Mangalwadi:

"To confirm my opinion of what the Bible is, I began rereading these historical books and I was amazed that the book is condemning Jewish religious leaders to the point that God hated them, He destroyed his temple, He killed a priest, He sent them into slavery. So I said, okay, then the Bible must be subaltern history written from the point of view of simple Jewish people. Men and women and children who are extracted both by religious and political leaders."

From The Archives

How To Create A Community | Jordan B. Peterson

Dr. Peterson:

"You stand on the border between chaos and order because that's the proper place to be orderly. Too much in the explored, you're not learning anything, and too much out there where the predators lurk, then you're frozen with terror, and neither of those positions is desirable."

Thank you for reading,

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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