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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1522 total appearances

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

And that's worth knowing too. If something terrible comes your way, it's like there's an opportunity there. Like it might be not the kind of opportunity you would have wished for, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

And that's worth knowing too. If something terrible comes your way, it's like there's an opportunity there. Like it might be not the kind of opportunity you would have wished for, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

So that's a good thing to know.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

So that's a good thing to know.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

I've met him four times. So we've probably spent a total of about seven hours together. Yeah. And I would say I've walked away from each encounter More impressed with him as a character in terms of his character. I mean, you have to be mouth open in amazement with regards to his technological and managerial entrepreneurial prowess.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

I've met him four times. So we've probably spent a total of about seven hours together. Yeah. And I would say I've walked away from each encounter More impressed with him as a character in terms of his character. I mean, you have to be mouth open in amazement with regards to his technological and managerial entrepreneurial prowess.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

I mean, it's just, it's ridiculous, but I believe that he's doing his best to aim up. Thank God. And I think that's what the Mars voyages symbolize, right? He's, it's a mythological adventure to aim up in that manner. And he's, it's part of his story, right? It's the mythological dimension of his story. And it's not practical, right? Except insofar as a great story is practical.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

I mean, it's just, it's ridiculous, but I believe that he's doing his best to aim up. Thank God. And I think that's what the Mars voyages symbolize, right? He's, it's a mythological adventure to aim up in that manner. And he's, it's part of his story, right? It's the mythological dimension of his story. And it's not practical, right? Except insofar as a great story is practical.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

So I remember the Apollo voyages. They were very motivating to people, you know, as an indication of what humanity was capable of doing. And certainly Musk is playing that out on the technological side.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

So I remember the Apollo voyages. They were very motivating to people, you know, as an indication of what humanity was capable of doing. And certainly Musk is playing that out on the technological side.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

By attempting to practice honesty in your own life. And by rewarding it among the people that you interact with. It's very useful to understand that you have the opportunity to point out to other people who you interact with regularly what they're doing that is positive and good, and that there's nothing in that that isn't productive.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

By attempting to practice honesty in your own life. And by rewarding it among the people that you interact with. It's very useful to understand that you have the opportunity to point out to other people who you interact with regularly what they're doing that is positive and good, and that there's nothing in that that isn't productive.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Well, that's the hard part of the problem, isn't it? I think, well, I had that conversation with my kids because it is something I told them when they went to school. I said, look, there's going to be reasonable rules at your school and there are going to be unreasonable rules. And I don't require you to follow the unreasonable rules, but you have to be willing to bear the consequences.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Well, that's the hard part of the problem, isn't it? I think, well, I had that conversation with my kids because it is something I told them when they went to school. I said, look, there's going to be reasonable rules at your school and there are going to be unreasonable rules. And I don't require you to follow the unreasonable rules, but you have to be willing to bear the consequences.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Right, so you're morally obliged to object to foolish restrictions, but you have to be willing to pay the price for that. And there will be a price. And it has to be you that pays it, right?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Right, so you're morally obliged to object to foolish restrictions, but you have to be willing to pay the price for that. And there will be a price. And it has to be you that pays it, right?

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Yes, yes. It's also the difference between activism, let's say, and civil disobedience. Because if it's civil disobedience, you pay the price. If it's activism, someone else does.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Yes, yes. It's also the difference between activism, let's say, and civil disobedience. Because if it's civil disobedience, you pay the price. If it's activism, someone else does.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Yeah, that would be good. I'd love to do that. We did a little bit of that. We got into the overlap between the narrative domains. That would be really useful. And I loved it. Yeah, I really loved it too. It's really beautiful. I don't know nearly as much about Hindu, religious thought as I should.

On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jordan Peterson: 5 Ways to Shift Envy into Growth & How to Recognize and Pursue Your True Calling

Yeah, that would be good. I'd love to do that. We did a little bit of that. We got into the overlap between the narrative domains. That would be really useful. And I loved it. Yeah, I really loved it too. It's really beautiful. I don't know nearly as much about Hindu, religious thought as I should.