Jordan Peterson

It might be useful for everybody watching and listening to think hard about what your comments about the first draft meant. Because one of the things I do when I'm teaching people to write, we've built this into some new software that we've developed called Essay, is encourage people to start with a question and then to write way more than they need. Right?

And that gives you, it gives you some creative space to lay out the exploration. And I suspect that's what you saw when you saw the first draft of the movie, the first version. It's like, it's kind of all over the place. But But that doesn't matter if you can edit it down. You know, there's a different... The part of your brain that produces and the part that edits are separate.

And that gives you, it gives you some creative space to lay out the exploration. And I suspect that's what you saw when you saw the first draft of the movie, the first version. It's like, it's kind of all over the place. But But that doesn't matter if you can edit it down. You know, there's a different... The part of your brain that produces and the part that edits are separate.

And that gives you, it gives you some creative space to lay out the exploration. And I suspect that's what you saw when you saw the first draft of the movie, the first version. It's like, it's kind of all over the place. But But that doesn't matter if you can edit it down. You know, there's a different... The part of your brain that produces and the part that edits are separate.

And if you get them both operating at once, like you try to write the perfect sentence, let's say, then they interfere with each other. You can't produce and you can't edit. So you want to separate the production function and overproduce, and then you want to edit. And that sounds like exactly what happened to you when you were... going through the first rough drafts of the movie.

And if you get them both operating at once, like you try to write the perfect sentence, let's say, then they interfere with each other. You can't produce and you can't edit. So you want to separate the production function and overproduce, and then you want to edit. And that sounds like exactly what happened to you when you were... going through the first rough drafts of the movie.

And if you get them both operating at once, like you try to write the perfect sentence, let's say, then they interfere with each other. You can't produce and you can't edit. So you want to separate the production function and overproduce, and then you want to edit. And that sounds like exactly what happened to you when you were... going through the first rough drafts of the movie.

But obviously the gold was there.

But obviously the gold was there.

But obviously the gold was there.

Yeah. So this character that you are in the movie is someone who's who's every man naive in a way, right? I mean, what you're doing, at least to some degree, is asking stupid questions. And I used to encourage my students, by the way, in my seminars to ask stupid questions, assuming they were paying attention, right?

Yeah. So this character that you are in the movie is someone who's who's every man naive in a way, right? I mean, what you're doing, at least to some degree, is asking stupid questions. And I used to encourage my students, by the way, in my seminars to ask stupid questions, assuming they were paying attention, right?

Yeah. So this character that you are in the movie is someone who's who's every man naive in a way, right? I mean, what you're doing, at least to some degree, is asking stupid questions. And I used to encourage my students, by the way, in my seminars to ask stupid questions, assuming they were paying attention, right?

Because if you have a question, and it's a genuine question, the probability that 80% of the people around you have the same question is very high.

Because if you have a question, and it's a genuine question, the probability that 80% of the people around you have the same question is very high.

Because if you have a question, and it's a genuine question, the probability that 80% of the people around you have the same question is very high.

You know, assuming you're paying a certain amount of attention, and so you have this character, and correct me if I have any of this wrong in your estimation, who's butting his head up against what a very large number of people seem to presume is self-evident, but is actually preposterous. And you allowed the people that you were talking to in both cases to put their foot in it, so to speak.

You know, assuming you're paying a certain amount of attention, and so you have this character, and correct me if I have any of this wrong in your estimation, who's butting his head up against what a very large number of people seem to presume is self-evident, but is actually preposterous. And you allowed the people that you were talking to in both cases to put their foot in it, so to speak.

You know, assuming you're paying a certain amount of attention, and so you have this character, and correct me if I have any of this wrong in your estimation, who's butting his head up against what a very large number of people seem to presume is self-evident, but is actually preposterous. And you allowed the people that you were talking to in both cases to put their foot in it, so to speak.

And so I'm curious first if you think that's a reasonable characterization of what you're doing. But then I'm also curious, you play a kind of, it's like a Bugs Bunny character in a sense. Like there are these trickster characters in mythology that are troublemakers because of their, what would you say? Yeah, it's like the kid who says the emperor has no clothes.