Wisdom from Jordan Peterson. I'd say this man is a national treasure, except that he is Canadian.
His advice comports well with a self-admonition I lately coined:
Forgive, forget, let go, move on, live now!
Life After 70
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Well said – both of you….
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Canadian he is and with iron will and balls to take on woke academic establishment (refused to use pronouns) and pay a heavy price for it. And then making lemonade from that lemon as his reach and financial situation have dramatically improved after he left his tenured position at the University of Toronto.
On the less bright side, his first book is barely readable – heavy, repetitive and boring. In his attempts to help lost or unhappy people he is oversimplifying a lot of things. Like in this clip, which is by and large sound, but completely ignores the concepts of duty and commitment to family, friends, country etc. One can’t just walk away from many of these even if the commitment brings one’s quality of life down. If you ask Peterson he would of course agree with what I just said and qualify his thoughts. But his simplistic recipes sometimes inflict more pain and unhappiness because the innocent advice seeker bound by the sense of duty (e.g. dedicated to caring for his disabled sister) would feel less empowered by his sermon as it would add more uncertainty and misery to that person who would now think he is even worse and weaker human being than he thought he was before listening to “just do it” Peterson’s bravado.
The above is not to say that Peterson has many helpful insights for these unstable times. The world is better off with him than without him. -
Yes, he paid a heavy price, but what does it say about Canada that it imposed that price on him? Wokery is widespread down here too, but not as bad: real Americans love liberty. Can we blame the French influence?
His first book is readable, but what struck me was that he was saying a lot of things that should not have needed saying — but do need saying because the youth of today have not been taught them or have not imbibed them from the circumambient culture.
As I recall from a quick skim a few years back, he was saying a lot of things that would have been taken for grant in the ’40’s, ’50s, and early ’60s. -
Canadian universities, just like in US and UK, are choke full of wokeism in humanities departments. Have a kid in one, so know about it from a trusted source. Hopefully the upcoming elections in Canada will change things for the better.
Peterson was also sanctioned by the Canadian professional association of clinical psychologists, appealed to them and then to court and lost in both cases, so he can’t practice. But it is all for the better for him personally as he is free to talk as he please, has more time and is way better off financially.
I respect Peterson, his heart is in the right place and most of his talking points are good. But his tendency to oversimplify complex matter and overcomplicate simple ones is not something I can admire. -
Hi Brother Bill !
Here is a similar admonition; I forget where I first saw it. It’s rather more engineering-oriented than yours:
“Don’t accept excuses. Don’t assign blame. Fix what is broken and move on.”
Also there’s this; I saw it on a banner in an aircraft hangar where they were painstakingly rebuilding some WW2 warbirds:
“We’re not doing this because it’s easy. (in big letters)
We’re doing it because we thought it would be easy.” (in much smaller letters.
Happy springtime ! -
Bill, my hero, I’m amazed you think this is Peterson speaking.It has AI written all over it.There’s so much fake Jordan stuff out there of late.
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James,
Sounds like his voice, and what part of the content convinces you it is AI generated? More importantly, what convinces you that there is any FAKE Jordan content here?
Dmitri,
You are an infotech expert, no? What say you about the claim of James?
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