Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

I have no hope.

I have no enthusiasm.

The joy has gone out of my life.

The neurological systems that signal movement forward to a desired end have shut down and left you suffering, left you with nothing but the bitterness of the potential that's going to make itself manifest in the most negative possible way if you can't organize yourself and confront the world.

And that's the same spirit.

That's the same spirit that's claimed in the great book of Genesis to make itself manifest at the beginning of time.

The spirit that confronts potential itself and casts itself and casts that potential into tangible order.

And not only order,

This is repeatedly insisted upon in the text, the order that is good.

So imagine that you're conducting yourself as a proper conscious moral agent in your family.

What are you doing?

You're taking the raw potential of your children and your family, and you're transforming them into the order that is good.

And how do you do that?

Well, do you love your children?

I didn't ask if you liked them.

Do you love your children?

And you say, well, at least I'd like to.

And I'm not being cynical about that.

We're all imperfect, and none of us love our children with the depth that we should.

But you see the best of people, I would say, in the love that they manifest for children.