Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

The part of you that I really want to communicate is the part that's aiming up. That was sort of the agreement I had with my clients in my clinical practice. I'm on the side of you that's aiming up, and that's an interesting basis for a relationship. It's like, I'm not going to accept everything you do.

The part of you that I really want to communicate is the part that's aiming up. That was sort of the agreement I had with my clients in my clinical practice. I'm on the side of you that's aiming up, and that's an interesting basis for a relationship. It's like, I'm not going to accept everything you do.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to arbitrarily judge it or dispense with you in the case of failure, but our deal has got to be something like we're trying to make things better. And so I'm going to be on the side of you that's trying to make things better and help you discriminate that part within you from the part that might be envious and aiming down and being destructive.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm going to arbitrarily judge it or dispense with you in the case of failure, but our deal has got to be something like we're trying to make things better. And so I'm going to be on the side of you that's trying to make things better and help you discriminate that part within you from the part that might be envious and aiming down and being destructive.

Oh, there's lots of things to be hopeful for. I mean... We're feeding twice as many people regularly as even the most wild optimists imagined in the late 1960s. Absolute poverty is being restricted around the world at a rate that's miraculously inconceivable.

Oh, there's lots of things to be hopeful for. I mean... We're feeding twice as many people regularly as even the most wild optimists imagined in the late 1960s. Absolute poverty is being restricted around the world at a rate that's miraculously inconceivable.

I mean, before things destabilized to some degree over the last five years, the UN projections were that we could eradicate absolute poverty by 2035. That's, I mean, that's a huge improvement. I mean, these communication technologies, they enable, well, with Peterson Academy, for example, we figure we can offer people a high-quality university-level education for under $2,000. and everywhere.

I mean, before things destabilized to some degree over the last five years, the UN projections were that we could eradicate absolute poverty by 2035. That's, I mean, that's a huge improvement. I mean, these communication technologies, they enable, well, with Peterson Academy, for example, we figure we can offer people a high-quality university-level education for under $2,000. and everywhere.

So like, that's a major improvement. I think that things are actually somewhat less polarized on the political side than they were two years ago. I mean, there's tendencies in both directions, but I see, I was just in Uzbekistan. That was extremely interesting. I met a man there who's an industrialist. His enterprises comprise 15% of Uzbekistan's GDP.

So like, that's a major improvement. I think that things are actually somewhat less polarized on the political side than they were two years ago. I mean, there's tendencies in both directions, but I see, I was just in Uzbekistan. That was extremely interesting. I met a man there who's an industrialist. His enterprises comprise 15% of Uzbekistan's GDP.

He refurbished 400,000 square meters of post-Soviet factory floor space. And They're manufacturing everything you can possibly imagine. Marble tiles, building materials, fridges, microwaves, air conditioners, golf carts, hospitals, hotels, high-rises. Uzbekistan under the Soviets was barely functional. Everyone was raising cotton. They drained Lake Bekel to irrigate the cotton fields.

He refurbished 400,000 square meters of post-Soviet factory floor space. And They're manufacturing everything you can possibly imagine. Marble tiles, building materials, fridges, microwaves, air conditioners, golf carts, hospitals, hotels, high-rises. Uzbekistan under the Soviets was barely functional. Everyone was raising cotton. They drained Lake Bekel to irrigate the cotton fields.

That was the only industrial development. They got themselves out from underneath the...

That was the only industrial development. They got themselves out from underneath the...

boot of the soviet totalitarians and the society is becoming wealthy and opportunity rich at an insane level and that's happening all over the world i mean endless numbers of reasons to assume that everybody could thrive that's what people like musk are trying to aim at you know however imperfectly i see no reason at all that the future couldn't be one of unlimited abundance.

boot of the soviet totalitarians and the society is becoming wealthy and opportunity rich at an insane level and that's happening all over the world i mean endless numbers of reasons to assume that everybody could thrive that's what people like musk are trying to aim at you know however imperfectly i see no reason at all that the future couldn't be one of unlimited abundance.

There's going to have to be a transformation in ethical orientation to go along with that because there's no difference between the ability to generate genuine wealth and ethical conduct. Those are the same thing. That's the life more abundant that's promised by the divine in the In the Old Testament stories, for example.

There's going to have to be a transformation in ethical orientation to go along with that because there's no difference between the ability to generate genuine wealth and ethical conduct. Those are the same thing. That's the life more abundant that's promised by the divine in the In the Old Testament stories, for example.

You have to conduct yourself honorably so that you can trust each other, so that you can cooperate to be productive. Right? So, yeah, I'm optimistic fundamentally.

You have to conduct yourself honorably so that you can trust each other, so that you can cooperate to be productive. Right? So, yeah, I'm optimistic fundamentally.