Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And because you're a materialist, you think, well, my bed, the furniture in my room, my rug, the artifacts around me.

And I would say, really, when you get up in the morning...

the first thing that you perceive and conceive is the furniture that you're 100% familiar with.

Or how about this?

How about this?

This is what confronts you.

How about if you think about the last time you were depressed or anxious?

That's a good way in.

What confronts you when you wake up in the morning?

How about the malformed potential of your life?

How about the wasted potential of your life?

How about the increasingly chaotic and demented chaos of your life?

How about all those opportunities you could have made something of had you chosen to?

How about all the wasted opportunities that saturate your house?

All the closets that haven't been organized?

All the fights you haven't had with your wife?

All the issues you haven't settled with your children?

All of that formless, chaotic, anxiety-provoking, terrifying potential.

Well, that's on the negative side.

You might say that's the dragon that is there in the morning when you awaken.