TO GROW YOU MUST SUFFER - Best Jordan Peterson Motivational Speech
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Why is suffering an essential part of personal growth?
Life is so difficult and challenging that unless you give it everything you have, the chances are very high that it will embitter you and then you'll be a force for darkness and not good. You know, the fact that life is short and can be brutal, can terrify you into hiding and avoiding, you can flip that on its head and understand that since you're all in anyways, you might as well take the risks that are adventurous. It's a pain to start at the bottom, but you start at the bottom where you're weak. And if you want to, Rectify what's weak. You have to accept the fact that you're at the bottom and that the first steps are going to be painful.
If you take people, and I've told you this, and you expose them voluntarily to things that they are avoiding and are afraid of, you know, that they know they need to overcome in order to meet their goals, their self-defined goals. If you can teach people to stand up in the face of the things they're afraid of, they get stronger. and you don't know what the upper limits to that are because you might ask yourself like if for 10 years if you didn't avoid doing what you knew you needed to do what would you be like Well, you know, there are remarkable people who come into the world from time to time. And there are people who do find out over decades long periods what they could be like if they were who they were, if they spoke their being forward.
And they get stronger and stronger and stronger. And we don't know the limits to that. We do not know the limits to that. And so you could say, well, in part, perhaps the reason that you're suffering unbearably can be left at your feet because you're not everything you could be and you know it.
How can facing fears lead to personal strength?
If you're going to rectify your weaknesses, you have to admit your insufficiency to your own shame. Now, if the gap between you and your ideal is so great that it paralyzes you, you shrink that. If you hide and you don't let what's inside of you out, and you don't bring into the world what you could bring, and you become cynical and bitter, you will start doing very dark things. not only will you not add to the world what you could add but you'll start being jealous of people who are competent and doing well and work to destroy them so that's the pathway to hell really People can have very, very difficult situations, can be in very, very difficult situations. And it's in those difficult situations where the search for gratitude becomes something that is by necessity deeper and more difficult.
But that doesn't mean it's not appropriate. There is a very tight association between loving your enemy and being grateful in spite of the terrible things that occur in your life. You are morally required to maintain faith, to aim up and to treat other people the way you would want to be treated, no matter what's happened to you. You aren't necessarily the best judge of what you need. You need something extremely valuable that you can move towards. And it's easy to be deluded in what you want. And that's the sort of delusions that people chase if they chase power. If you decide instead that you're going to just say what you believe to be true, you have to let go of the consequences. And you might think, well, I don't want to let go of the consequences because I want to control what's going on.
What steps can you take to rectify your weaknesses?
But what you miss then is adventure, because if you don't control what's going on, you don't know what the hell is going to happen. The proper comparison group for you is you yesterday. You're the only control group that's appropriate to you because you have a certain set of talents and possibilities and limitations and tragedies that are truly unique to you. And so you might be comparing yourself to someone else on some dimension, but it's not a reasonable comparison because you don't know what talents they were blessed with. And you also don't know what opportunities they had that you didn't, etc. It's just not a reasonable comparison. It's a lot better to think about who you were and then to think, well, could you be some what better in some dimension?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is suffering an essential part of personal growth?
0:00–1:49
2
How can facing fears lead to personal strength?
1:49–3:40
3
What steps can you take to rectify your weaknesses?
3:40–5:44
4
How does gratitude play a role in difficult situations?
5:44–7:11
5
What is the significance of making decisions in life?
7:11–8:38
6
How can humility contribute to personal development?
8:38–9:39
7
What small steps can lead to significant change?
9:39–11:05
8
How does embracing maximal challenge shape our identity?
11:05–14:45
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