it's a gift to be alive at the same time as Dr. Jordan Peterson. In such a short period of time, his teaching has had such an impact on my life that I can't even put it into words. I'm 24 years old and he helped me change the course of my life. I will be grateful for the rest of my life.
@123you876 Says:
I really like Jordan and I understand what he’s saying. Aim up. Because why not? Like he said, there’s no doing nothing. Else you just, get old and that’s not nothing…
But while I can admit that yes, I would like an intimate relationship, and that is something to aim for, I don’t like how he paints it as almost a necessity for happiness…
He painted a rather binary picture here, that either you’re in a happy, loving relationship, or you’re not. And if you’re not, then you must be bitter and resentful, or a misanthrope.
I really don’t agree with that, I do agree that most people, myself included, want a relationship. But it isn’t a necessity for happiness in life. And a great deal of people don’t end up in happy relationships…
But it’s important to find a path to self-happiness with or without a relationship.
@EarthCitizen3 Says:
Thank you. You have provided me with a strategy to overcome a most difficult issue in my life. The simple word, higher, is now imbedded in my mind. I have used it many times to great effect. Ignore the haters, professor. And again, thank you.
@joe_palin_music Says:
I fucking love this man
@chissstardestroyer Says:
You can actually have a case where you're very hard on yourself, focused on others, and specifically dedicated to their complete and utter *destruction*, thinking long-term, and completely antisocial all rolled into one.
Also there are no trolls in the real world, and *certainly* not online, as trolls are only found in fantasy works, anybody at all who thinks or has thought that trolls are talking to him over the internet is really completely delusional.
And also, there're those who it really is proper to say that if he loves his neighbor *as* he loves himself, it really is Heaven help your neighbor- as they really are in *immortal* danger, especially those neighbors who actually *are* immortal are the ones who'll be the *first* to be killed, as they all will be, including the man himself! But before any mortals die at all, all *immortals* will die, especially those protected from death by "god", solely for that very quality!
@chissstardestroyer Says:
Yeah, good advice Dr. Peterson, about "if something as horrible and wretched as you had an okay time" *Who* do we think we are?! God?! buddy, if you or I were Him, literally *everyone everywhere* would really be up the creek and completely screwed, often *literally*!
Only mankind is dumb enough to think himself "god", that's radically different from trying to see things through His eye-view- the latter is fine, ideal, and *VERY* moral; the former is the *stupidest* thing one can possibly do!
I took to periodically listening to some of "Thrawn's Journal" readings on youtube based on a fictional alien man, and he has some *alarmingly good ideas* therein, including a very highly detailed warning to men from the perspective of a combat deep-cover soldier on the hazards of pride- if it gets too big!
Now if I were really the absolute *head and founder* of organized crime, lets just say I'd be his boss's pseudo-god, and actually I'd be kind of dead-scared of going after *him* with his grounding in absolute reality; no, I'd want someone either mentally weak (ie: delusional) or someone completely *bad* BEFORE I move in to make a deal and thus enslave him... otherwise I'd leave it to my minions and fuel them for the forseeable future.
This wicked alien being is best visualized intitially in USA mythology in the character of "Count Iblis" from "Battlestar Galactica" but one eyeing of its views and *you* Sir, will know *EXACTLY* what it is supposed to be, same head villain as in a type of vampire story in the character described by the pseudonym/alias of "the first".
@LaMariposafer Says:
A lot of ppl feel better if they feel worse. Christianity can be interpreted as a way of living in suffering in this world for heaven in the next. Some ppl unconciously believe that.
@JoyfulJenn Says:
He has taught me so much, especially wayyyy back in the day with “just” his classroom lectures.
@Kenomagic Says:
He is wonderful reminding us of how we need to be as humans ❤❤
@flobba123 Says:
i always aim up but i always fall down again.
@WyattSimkins Says:
Simple, but effective. Always good to come from Jordan Peterson.
@Ligerpride Says:
All well and good looking for a committed relationship, finding one is the problem.
@HrissW Says:
5:50
@amynow Says:
I always chase love, Dr P. And I lose myself in it. Big time. I’ve experienced too much jealousy blocking me from being me. Think of hearts & bones with Paul Simon singing “this is how I love you, baby” while making the sign for one inch with this thumb & forefinger. Tiny - quiet- manageable- “THIS is how I love you, baby.”
I’m gonna try life on my own for a while… big, loud and nearly unmanageable haha that’s why I’m not looking for love again. Yet.
Love you 🩵🩵🩵 thank you for being here.
@EcomCarl Says:
Wonderful reminder on the power of self-compassion! 🌟 Treating ourselves with the same respect and care we offer others can significantly enhance personal growth and success.
@zgamer9466 Says:
I can't...someone keeps breaking into my home and vandalizing things I work hard for. I can't have a car since the bolts will disappear from the wheels and I can't get a better job
@LaurenaLaCroix Says:
❤❤❤ i git it, ❤❤❤ he helps me, ❤❤❤ i listen, improve myself, ❤❤❤ i fix me, ❤ u fix u, ❤❤❤ lov peterson's perspective on truth, ❤ behavioral patterns, consequences, blessings, ❤
@PhamVans Says:
Aiming up has never been the problem, it's all the forces that try to drag you down.
@treeassassin13 Says:
Have you looked at the ticket prices to go see him? Louisville in 4 days. $462 each. And not great seats at all. Disappointing.
@lesedishametja7005 Says:
Is there a full seminar video?
@Naratifan Says:
Good bit loved it !!!
@sainttochez7334 Says:
Jordan please consider having David Goggins on a podcast. Millions of people will listen & Benefit from it. Please consider it.
@Theautisticartist666 Says:
"you can't just do nothing.. because you get old and that's not nothing!"
So true!
@天博Timbo Says:
I was just thinking about redoing my selfauthoring profile this weekend, then I saw this. Time to revision my future😊❤
@yknws Says:
his sentences are so incoherent, doesnt he speak for a living?
@yeahmaxi Says:
he made me realise so much. now I am aiming high.
@leoroman7331 Says:
Why is the part about ask yourself, so funny? lol it really cracked me up
@colours2026 Says:
Yes brother there is only 4% of selfish trolls out there that are ideological immature !!! Admiral people know we fail yet attain the knowledge to prevail 🫴🫳👏😎🙌❤️🔥👑🪽 all glory to God !!! Do not let any failures cease your growth in the name of the Lord !!! You got this !!! Push yourself to better understand this life !
@imnotanalien7839 Says:
🎯🎯🎯🎯
@backyardthinker5996 Says:
pointless jerking.. boasting people with more meaning than they have for themselves doesn't work, motivating them to achieve something they are not ready or made for doesn't work.. there can be exceptions. if you want people to succeed, what you should do is first make them recognize who they are, faults and flaws, everything.. very hard with the modern 'YOU ARE SPECIAL' motto. when you can beat someone's ego, and bring them to submission to what they are and where they are in life, and decorate them with what they need in order to be the best version of themselves. then you have a real chance. rest of the boast talks is jerking off and hoping some of the many will manage by chance.
@Luke-mb1tt Says:
5:56 Gold
@Thomasinas Says:
Do we NEED God?
@lawrencevandenberg7725 Says:
Thoughts are thrift store merchandise. Once in a while something new shows up. Still has a price tag on it. May even fit! "If it isn't new, it isn't you." If it is you, you may turn it back to the store, while it's still wearable. Same with thoughts. Sucking a thought dry, threadbare, useless, is --exactly-- the " thought of self." There's no such a thing. We're all, all of us, relative. 🕊
@IzanamiGem Says:
Thank you Dr. for helping us all. I thank you in my name Nahuel Tomas, I thank you in the name of all students on self authoring, I thank you in the name of all people watching this and making no comments about it. I'm deeply glad that I've had the surprise of seeing your wife just next to you, it really charms my heart. Here in Uruguay I've just had lunch, today I'm going with "full belly, happy heart" haha
I'm unlucky enough to not have recognized myself during my whole life, and that feels amazing. I've already stated this and I will insist again: At the end of this weekend I ensure second part of my past authoring will be finished. I send you my best wishes for you and your beloved family 🇺🇾❤️🇨🇦
@pratyushjena8439 Says:
4:30
@bhall1110 Says:
People may not fully understand what it means to take of yourself in a healthy manner, but most people are self-centered by nature and are not necessarily selfless. You don't have to look any further than commuter time on the highway to see my point. The world would be a much nicer place with selfless people.
@teridacktaljones4553 Says:
🦝
@kay-jayswann2352 Says:
People care more about a pimple on there face more then a bomb strike on the other side of the world killing 50 people that had no effect to them. So to that degree people do treat themselves better than other people and are selfish but that’s what makes us humans, after all from our own perspective we our the centre of the world.
@RafaelNunesGontijo Says:
I think there are somethings Dr. Peterson says that hit me so deeply, that they make me rethink whatever it is I think I may know about life. Thank you so much for your words, they really helped me today.
@RalphSasso Says:
Life is a circumstantial journey.... We really never arrive.
@PotatoKaboom Says:
These peterson statements like 50% of people who do that exercise don't drop out of collage are so annoying because you can google for hours and not find a single source for them.
@Steve197201 Says:
Sometimes, the best way to serve others is to serve yourself. You can't help anyone if you're drowning in your own problems. But if you can get yourself to higher ground, you might find that you become inspired to offer assistance to those who are in as rough a shape as you once were.
@amincamus6337 Says:
Thank you
@Itsyaminiii Says:
Binod
@Peter-rz4rw Says:
It's important to understand that the price you pay isn't so bad. Rockefeller said he found that succesful people are not paying the price, because they like work. You can lower the price by doing something that takes your interest. If you like work, life is heaven if you do not, life is hell. It's the most important lesson that I had to get from Rockefeller. Work is great and love work! It's important.
@metalrocker627 Says:
Okay yeah sure you can aim up……… and then what………???
It would just be ‘meh’ at that point.
@DavidPereiraLima123 Says:
I miss the fatherly Dr. Peterson. He still is, don't get me wrong, but I mean that man from 2016-2018 who gave willing millenials serious and stern guidance and deep advices. I'm glad to see him acting out that role fully once again even if on short occasions, I'm grateful, really and this whole video left me on the imminence of shedding a tear, to be brutally honest. Thank you, J.P.
@alexlanious3248 Says:
Marketing genius
@randycliff4045 Says:
As a boomer, in my younger years, I operated on a lot of assumptions -- my life would operate a bit like my grandparents, and a bit like my parents ... and then my parents divorced. My response to Dr. Peterson's question would have been either a dull-blank look or a blank-dull look -- I worked at home; I worked at my grandparent's with the horses when I was there; I had a part-time job, suffering through school; and at 17 was living on my own, quit school and started working fulltime. But I really don't know how to do anything special. In my entire family, there's only one person that when to university ... so I had no guidance and no idea how to create a vision.
Today, young people are overflowing with information. Yet too often they still have no guidance and no idea how to create a vision. SO YOU DO IT -- teach your children and grandchildren every chance you get. Plant little seeds; talk about work. Plant little seeds; talk about the future. Plant little seeds; talk about sex and marriage. Plant little seeds; teach cars, nature, physical work; husbandry; how do use an axe; how to cook; caring for children; caring for grandparents; caring for the widow next door. Teach them all the time, so when someone asks them ideas of a vision, they might actually have some ideas.
@SanchoPanza-m8m Says:
Dr. Peterson. What a class act! This fellow's ideal place in society would be as a guest lecturer to each and every junior high school cohort.
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