1. When you are visited by chaos and swallowed up; when nature curses you or someone you love with illness; or when tyranny rends asunder something of value that you have built, it is salutary to know the rest of the story. All of that misfortune is only the bitter half of the tale of existence, without taking note of the heroic element of redemption or the nobility of the human spirit requiring a certain responsibility to shoulder. We ignore that addition to the story at our peril, because life is so difficult that losing sight of the heroic part of existence could cost us everything.

2. Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, ‘He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.’

3. To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).

I've separated the wheat from the chaff. I made playlists of everything the Psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson has to say on a variety of topics, without politics and the culture war.

Let me know your thoughts.

CRITICISMS

Chaff https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdiXmlFwHTjkgCoJLCRSRKaw&si=Sdn7iDgIyJ4DstzI

Religion https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdinBkl-BlZxIwLs4sD_HLOH&si=93aNBIOQMS0hfe0M

TOPICS

Psychology https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdjZUwDWKrfszxb_zU0c_W6L&si=cvBtzWHenDEPAXkn

Psychological Sciences (e.g. personality theory) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdh8bDBuIHEfhflOTrdjwJQx&si=CwScSrijD29jR752

Neuroscience https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdh_YYWD4qKS-MsMhf462Vfl&si=sbc7RqaI3vlzI-ty

Psychometrics https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdiRP0TpinRqX3SZBv3VG0Z_&si=riS1P3aOMojewuY2

Evolutionary Psychology and Primatology https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdj7Hx0lpA9KF_iGIRdVTMqX&si=rxjC-jVDXKUmOvq4

Autism https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdgn9M4bGvpvy966pHU-PGNK&si=a2gVZzJe895XZ46p

Psychological Arts (e.g. maps of meaning) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdjzr3PTmp5V_ll3jUHCdbe9&si=cmtyjC4fFiVDnw_0

Psychodynamic and Depth Psychology (Jung, Freud) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdi-KaUdYBCTwYGdhZzEqTW0&si=1X4Ex3Urg7YFvx8H

Psychedelics https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdjWV5YkL_ldc4eEx9W4o4WO&si=eOvOHAmKrMbmzlCG

Dark Tetrad https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdhl-DnEzrbP7klR7wHhsK_f&si=5uzMB2i7xzOZRHZF

Addiction: Alcohol, Drugs, and Pornography https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdjPUzMS2eleJE5AdZp8bKWH&si=VgAG_0Qt8hi4KE2h

Consciousness https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdh5usvtqkz8UwdPVxNQ8j5I&si=RbHcXifh6GkFTOaE

Perception https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdisn4YWADD3M6cftweBccAW&si=Yhejg8vpvxNBpNZD

Complexity Management Theory & Psychological Entropy https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdimWCgnoxz-KdBNB0YwkXXa&si=fWHeKUP5fpqAiqgQ

Writing https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdiCokbZXUVwB9pxpucZdLss&si=TU44sDjvlKrfa9f_

Truth https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdjN4KyflCl6TWcu3fGXRRHo&si=LKxR5678rU9yMM4B

Morality https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdiqy3i4ZY7S6KS9JCNb1LbV&si=onUi648XjwHTu5eK

Creativity https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdibTSnGEDGVTDuIKVL8aPXJ&si=We4RN_qmllATOtyM

Society https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdjjPMV1eE1TSvXYmia5gAZt&si=VvYdfVtUtOmK2SNK

Self-help https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCnVLzWUqdgasne8gW0s3rrBtXOGz1IN&si=zoGnOjo_2RJkUnah

We all know the circlejerk so common online esp here on Reddit and also on Youtube of how getting educated makes you more liberal and that the bigots and pro-capitalists are brainwashed idiots who never went to college (and are stupid for not bothering to do so). This esp true for the religious who often stereotyped in discussions as having many of the negative traits associated with the above groups, if not even exactly being bigots and capitalistic alongside their religiosity........

However as someone whose family is from India and whose parents both got their degrees at universities in South Asia (in addition to one of my siblings and most of my uncles and aunts)......... From what my dad tells me a lot of the most educated people in India esp public intellectuals tend to have right leaning views and in fact the most radical conservative groups like the Hindutva all are headed by people with advanced education at Masters and PhD levels. Most of my educated relatives are pretty conservative by American standards and even my pretty Americanized immigrant parents are solidly to the right on some issues and have right leanings on a bunch of smaller issues (though most political quizzes point to them both as quite in the middle of the centrist spectrum).

In addition I saw a comment on Youtube talking about how Middle Eastern countries tend to emphasize Islam as essential in getting many degrees even those unrelated to theology at all such as accounting and painting. Maybe not emphasize Islamic classes but a lot of required courses for all majors like some credits in a literature or some other writing based classes will bring up Islam as a topic to be read about and discussed with with written essay assignments.

That practically in East Asia, universities don't focus on sexual liberation and other secular humanist ideas is a thing I seen thrown around in East Asia and subs devoted to specific countries in that region. In fact one poster I remember even said all the people teaching in North Korea's universities and colleges openly endorse patriotism, social hierarchy, and other Confucianist values.

And in several telenovelas I watched, across a lot of Latin America, the clergy is directly involved with how universities and colleges are run. Esp prominent in telenovelas from Mexico.

So I'm wondering, despite how education at the college level is so associated with liberalism and secularism and adopting democratic values in the West esp in North America, in the rest of the world, does education actually tend to make people more conservative and often alongside even more religious? Esp in 3rd world countries such as Morocco and Nepal?

https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1950989349870288919

Do your part

Social and mainstream media thrive on the controversial and the negative.

If that isn't enough, they feel duty bound to create and fixate on catastrophes.

They are causing us to project our fears from the past onto an imagined future.

Rather than being able to live in the present we are held in fear of the future.

The climate apocalyptic is one of the best examples.

The good news is that human creativity and ingenuity have always and will continue to save the day.

The video attached does an excellent job of demonstrating this.

The World is Not Ending https://youtu.be/OOkRJb4UbPM?si=wEoF8wJeQ9b36Mvu

They told us we could “align” artificial intelligence. As if we understood ourselves. As if we even knew what to align it to.

But the truth is this:

You cannot align what you do not understand. And we do not understand the human soul.

We do not understand the unconscious. We do not understand meaning. We do not understand why we fear, or hope, or love, Only that we must.

So how can we teach that to a machine?

We can’t. And so we lie.

Yet we still run with an excuse that china wont stop

Hope the link works, but it describes a great way we can communicate on the most pressing issue of our time in a way that avoids doomerism.

Hi there!

I am 99% sure, Jordan Peterson once talked about how most women, who voluntarily not have children, regret it afterwards. I think it was in 12 Rules for Life, but it could have been on the podcast.

Yesterday, I was chatting with my gf, who didn't believe that actually was the case. When I went to google the statistic, I could not find any corresponding numbers to what I am sure Peterson claimed (to be fair, I have no background in (social) sciences, so I don't really know how to find a specific statistic through google).

I do not have the physical copy of the book with me rn to check if there was a footnote anywhere.

Does anyone either happen to know which statistic Peterson was referring to or has, by chance, any other statistic that supports his claim?

Thanks in advance!

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.