Today's Mondays of Meaning discusses handling your anxiety, the differences between the two brain hemispheres and how you should develop yourself.


** Mondays of Meaning
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August 15th, 2022 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Hello,

This week's edition discusses how to handle your anxiety, the differences between the two hemispheres of the brain and how you should develop yourself.


** How To Handle Your Anxiety
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If someone's anxious about something, and it's getting in their way, you take what they're anxious about, and you define it.

Because that already delimits it, right? Because one of the problems with being anxious about something is you won't speak of it. It's like Voldemort.

And then, if you don't speak of it, it's way bigger than it should be. You've cut it down to size as soon as you start talking about it.

You're not as afraid of as many things as you think. And you're braver than you know and more capable. So, as soon as you're brave enough to start talking about what you're afraid of, you see that there's more to you than you thought and that there's less to the problem than you thought.

And then, you can deconstruct it further into smaller problems and then figure out how to approach those smaller problems.

It doesn't seem to me that you get less frightened. It seems that you get more courageous, which is way better than being less frightened because there are many things to be frightened about.

So if you're courageous, that really does the trick.


** Monday Reflections
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"There's a nearly infinite number of facts, and you're not going to pay attention to all of them because you can't, and so how do you decide what not to pay attention to the answer is you don't know.” (Share this on Twitter) ([link removed])

"With reading, you imagine you have this opportunity to learn whatever you want from the greatest people who ever lived along that dimension. ” (Share this on Twitter ([link removed]) )​ ([link removed])

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** This Week On The Podcast
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The Matter with Things: Peterson and McGilchrist | Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Dr Jordan B Peterson | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The two hemispheres of the human brain are explicitly different and both incredibly complex. Dr. Iain McGilchrist joins to discuss and explore the science of philosophy, covering everything from our ability to reason to how art can cross cultures.

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** From The Archives
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As You Develop, You Have to Develop Towards a Particular Way of Being | Jordan B. Peterson

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“Your brain is wired to react to things that have meaning before they construct the perceptions that you think of as objects and the reason for that is because the meaning of things is more real in some sense but more important than the view of things as objects.”
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Thank you for reading,

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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