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This week's edition looks at why you should love your neighbor as you do yourself. Alex Epstein and I discuss the undeniable need for fossil fuels. Then, revisit how to know what you actually want in From The Archives.
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Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself
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Jung wrote about the biblical injunction that you should treat your neighbor as if he were yourself, essentially. But he talked about that as an equation which was quite interesting. Because it is often read as something like, "You should be nice to people," which is not what it means at all.
First, "nice" is a very low-end virtue, but that is not what it means. What it means is you should treat your neighbor as if he or she is someone who you wish to encourage and develop. But you should also have exactly the same attitude toward yourself.
Regardless of what your opinion is of yourself—critical, let us say, hypercritical even—you have to put forward to yourself the same sympathy that you would extend to someone else who you cared for.
That is the thing: You have to come to treat yourself as if you are someone that you care for.
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Beyond Order Tour - New Venues
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Announcing 15 new shows in the U.S. and Canada. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Get yours here.
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"I do not tell people, 'You are okay the way that you are.' That is not the right story. The right story is, 'You are way less than you could be.' (Share this on Twitter)
"We do not ever want to confuse freedom with chaos. They are not the same thing." (Share this on Twitter)
"If you do not think your life depends on your words, then you just do not know anything about words." (Share this on Twitter)
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The Great Climate Con | Alex Epstein | #312
Alex Epstein and I discuss the undeniable need for fossil fuels, the toxic underlying nihilism of the “climate concerned” Left, the need for balance between conservation and human progress, and the unexplored worth of wild potential.
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What Do You Actually Want? | With Dr. John Delony | Jordan B Peterson
Dr. Peterson:
"You might say, ‘Well, who should I be?’ And you might think, ‘Well, I should be the college president, I should have this car, and I should have this house.’ Those are all very particularized versions of yourself, and the problem with them is that they are concrete and final actualities — and not processes. Here is a good vision that is a high-order vision, and I think it is the vision that our whole culture is founded on: I should be the person who genuinely confronts the problems and challenges that confront me in my life."
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Thank you for reading,
Dr Jordan B Peterson
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