Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

And when we hear a story like that, it echoes deep inside us.

That's why the stories are so compelling.

It's like the baptismal scene in The Lion King, when Simba is adolescent and deluded and power-mad and confused, and his father appears in the sky and says, "'Remember who you are.'"

Well, that's what the ancient stories do.

They remind you who you are, right?

You're children of God made in the image of the creative being that sits at the center of reality itself, reflected in your soul, and you've forgotten in your reality.

mis-aimed presumptions, your pretension, your pride, and your ignorance.

And the stories, the ancient stories, call to you to wake up and understand who you are, to adopt that responsibility, and to put that foremost above everything.

confront the terrible, catastrophic dragon of chaos dressed in your suit of lion skin and your armor so that you can render the void and the desert habitable for your family, yourself, and your community.

That's the adventure of your life, you might say.

Life is suffering and it's bitter and I should turn against it.

And the rejoinder to that is,

There's no adventure without trouble.

And the greatest adventure has the most trouble.

And if you took on the full trouble of your life, unstintingly, you'd have an adventure that would justify the misery.

That's the offer.

It's not comfort.

You want comfort?

Dostoevsky figured this out in 1880.

When he was criticizing delusional utopianism, he said, look, if you took the typical person,