Today's Mondays of Meaning discusses Rule 3 of Beyond Order and why you should only compare yourself.
** Mondays of Meaning
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August 1st, 2022 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,
This week's edition will discuss Rule 3 of Beyond Order, the importance of not hiding unwanted things in the fog, and why you should only compare yourself.
** Incremental Improvement Forward
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If there are things about your life that are bothering you or things about the world that are bothering you, then you want to deconstruct them into solvable subproblems.
If you have a child, this is the sort of thing that you do naturally, right? Because you want to set your child a challenge that's sufficiently challenging to push them forward in their development.
So that makes it meaningful for the child that puts them in the zone of proximal development, which is where proper maturation takes place.
You want to make it challenging but also with a reasonable probability of success, and there's an art to that.
So you want to set yourself a task that's difficult, but not so difficult. You can't attain it.
And then what happens is that you step up improvement across time incrementally, and there's also a certain element of humility to it, right, which is, “Don't bite off more than you can chew.”
Don't set grandiose goals. Incremental improvement will get you a tremendous distance.
** Monday Reflections
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“If you pay attention to yourself when you do something that helps someone else, and it genuinely helps them, I defy you to find another experience as satisfying. It's quite stunning." (Share this on Twitter) ([link removed].)
"It's very hard to find your own words, and you don't exist until you have them.” (Share this on Twitter ([link removed]) )
"You can make a great plan but don't get obsessive about it. Implementation is more important because when you do, you'll figure out why it's stupid. Then you can fix it a little bit, then fix it a little more and continue making incremental progress.”
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** This Week On The Podcast
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Beyond Order: Rule 3 - Do Not Hide Unwanted Things in the Fog | Jordan Peterson | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
In this episode of the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, we continue our dive into Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life. This compilation episode is focused on Rule 3: “Do Not Hide Unwanted Things in the Fog" It includes interviews with Dave Rubin, Aubrey Marcus, and Theo Von.
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** From The Archives
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The Only Person You Can Compare Yourself to Is YOU | Jordan B. Peterson
Dr. Peterson:
"The only person you can compare yourself to in some real sense is yourself because you're the only one of your previous instantiation and the only person who perfectly matches your talents and limitations. You can strive to be somewhat better than you were and attain that too."
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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