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In this week’s edition, I address the responsibility you have to define the purpose of your life and the generous adventure that follows. Maajid Nawaz poses a rebuttal to my interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and I pull from the archives on why living together before marriage is not the best choice.
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What Is Your Purpose In Life?
Imagine that the purpose of your life is not security and satiation because you are not just an overgrown infant. Imagine, instead, that the purpose of your life is something like responsibility, productivity, and a generous adventure.
The call would be: Make space for people to manifest that in the particularities of their own life. And then everyone has a real part to play, and no one, in some real sense, is subordinate to anyone else. There would be a hierarchical structure, and some people, like you, would be leading at the more abstract levels.
But your power would be — your authority and your responsibility would be — properly delimited and everything else everybody else was doing all the way down the hierarchy would (right to the level of running their individual enterprise), in some sense, be just as meaningful and just as crucial. That strikes me as an extraordinarily useful vision of governance, especially in the aftermath of the COVID fiasco.
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New European Dates For Beyond Order Tour
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Dr. Peterson returns to Europe as part of his Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life Tour. New dates can be found here, with the full sale beginning on Wednesday, March 8th.
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“Vision” and “Destiny” are not once-understood concepts, nor are they rinse-and-repeat notions. They must be thoughtfully considered and continually created. That’s why Jordan is including more episodes in his new series, Vision & Destiny. Follow Jordan as he explains how to make the vision you want come to life as your desired destiny. Watch the third episode of Vision & Destiny now, exclusively on DW+.
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How Do You Orient Yourself To The World Of Possibility?
Let us speak about vision a bit. We can start by thinking about vision technically. Vision is what occurs when you look out at the world. You see the world array itself in front of you, and you think, “That is vision.” But vision has another sense too, and that is the sense of visionary. A visionary is someone who can envision not actuality, but possibility. We should start by assessing the relationship between vision in the narrow technical sense — what happens when you orient your eyes toward the world — and vision in the visionary sense...
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In Response to Netanyahu | Maajid Nawaz | EP 337
Maajid Nawaz launches this in-depth discussion with a rebuttal to my prior interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. From here, we discuss the affinities and gaps between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity; explore the origin of ideology; and address the current technocratic Tower of Babel the world seems to be constructing.
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At the Auckland, NZ stop of my Beyond Order tour, an audience member asked me to elaborate on why I advise against cohabitation before marriage.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr Jordan B Peterson
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