Today's Mondays of Meaning explains why you should clean your room and I discuss Islam with Jonathan Pageau and Mohammed Hijab.
** Mondays of Meaning
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October 17th, 2022 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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This week's edition explains why you should clean your room. I discuss comparative religion and Islam with Jonathan Pageau and Mohammed Hijab. Also from the archives, how to stop wasting opportunities that come to you.
** Clean Your Room
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People try to change the outside world in lots of ways. But many of those ways aren't just pure good.
I made a video, which was called (a message to millennials), it was called, “How to change the world properly”.
A bit of on the pretentious side, I suppose. But I was trying to produce something that was a counterposition to this idea that what you should do is go out and fix up other people.
You know, that's just not right. And there's a New Testament line about, something about not worrying too much about the speck in your neighbor's eye when you have a log in your eye.
It's like, yes, no kidding. But you know, do you really want to face that?
So, what you want to do is start to tell and act out the truth locally, within the domain of your actual competence.
The world presents itself as a series of puzzles, some of which you're capable of solving, and some of which are not. And you have many puzzles in front of you that you could solve, but you choose not to.
It's like, “I should really do this”, but you don’t.
I had this idea a long time ago, I thought, “Well, what would the world be like if people stopped avoiding the things they knew they should do? The question is, how much are we contributing to the fact that life is an existential catastrophe and a tragedy? How much is our own corruption contributing to that?
“Well, you know, that place over there could use a little work.” So you clean that up, because you can, then things are a little clearer around you. And you're a little better off because you've practiced a bit.
You're a little stronger, and then something else manifests itself and says, Well, maybe you could take a crack at fixing me up too.” So you decide to do that.
And then that gets a little bit more pristine. It's humble. You're not exceeding your domain of competence.
It's like, “Don't be fixing up the economy. 18-year-old.” You don't know anything about the economy.
Can you even clean up your own room? “No.” Well, you should think about that.
Because if you can't even clean up your own room, who the hell are you to give advice to the world?
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** Monday Reflections
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"You can make your anxiety work against you or for you." ( ([link removed]) Share this on Twitter ([link removed]) )
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"The only thing that a monster won't mess with is another monster, and you might say "Well, I don't want to transform myself into a monster." It's like you don't have a choice, you can either be a pathetic monster or you can be a monster with some power.” ([link removed]) (
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"If you have any sense, one of the things that you're going to insist upon is that at the end of the day you're not in worse shape than you were that then at the beginning of the day."( ([link removed]) Share this on Twitter
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** This Week On The Podcast
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Talking to Muslims | Mohammed Hijab & Jonathan Pageau | #297 |The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
In my latest podcast, myself, Jonathan Pageau, and Mohammed Hijab discuss comparative religion, what is said about Islam versus what Islam has to say, and how the uncomfortable conversation – whether contentious or unnerving, is well worth having.
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** From The Archives
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What Would Happen if You Just Stopped Wasting the Opportunities That Are in Front of You? | Jordan B. Peterson
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“Perhaps the reason that you're suffering unbearably can be left at your feet because you're not everything you could be and you know it and of course, that's a terrible thing to admit and it's a terrible thing to consider but there's real promise in it right because it means that perhaps there's another way that you could look at the world."
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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