Thank you! So much self/life  improvement in one q&a!

good advice for my son who is raising a daughter. 

This public lecture, recorded by TVO, describes the way the world is portrayed in deep stories, such as myths and religious representations. The world in such stories is a place of action, not a place of things, and it has its archetypal characters, positive and negative. Culture is typically represented as paternal, nature as maternal, and the individual as hero and adversary. Culture offers people security, but threatens them with tyranny. Nature offers renewal, but also brings death. The religious path of meaning allows people to negotiate this archetypal landscape.

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3m0tt5KcE

01 - Reality And The Sacred

A TVO Big Ideas Lecture from 2012, presented at INPM's Conference on Personal Meaning. It discusses the idea of redemption in Christianity from a psychological perspective, comparing in part to ideas of transformation in psychotherapy.

Original Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtiRzQMgBDM

05 - Psychology Of Redemption

Part 1: Maps of Meaning: 1 Monsters of Our Own Making.

This is the first of a 13-part 30 minute episode television series broadcast by TVO presenting Dr. Jordan B Peterson's lectures on his book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. The lecture provides a good introduction to the psychology of mythology and religion, based on the idea that stories from these domains describe the world as a place of action, rather than, as science does, a place of things.

Part 2: Maps of Meaning: 2 Contending with Chaos

Part 3: Maps of Meaning: 3 Becoming Like Gods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knEZN9U-9xc&list=PL22J3VaeABQC6oShltYc6rMUDAGJ7_G5e&index=1

09 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 1 - 3

Lecture 1 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the notion of sovereignty and power, divorced from any concrete sovereign or particular, individual person of power. I also suggest that God, as Father, is something akin to the spirit or pattern inherent in the human hierarchy of authority, which is based in turn on the dominance hierarchies characterizing animals.

Purchase Tickets Here: https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/
Support this Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
Self Authoring: https://selfauthoring.com/
Jordan Peterson Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com/
Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson

18 - Introduction To The Idea Of God

Lecture II in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories from May 23 at Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto. In this lecture, I present Genesis 1, which presents the idea that a pre-existent cognitive structure (God the Father) uses the Logos, the Christian Word, the second Person of the Trinity, to generate habitable order out of precosmogonic chaos at the beginning of time. It is in that Image that Man and Woman are created -- indicating, perhaps, that it is (1) through speech that we participate in the creation of the cosmos of experience and (2) that what true speech creates is good.

It is a predicate of Western culture that each individual partakes in some manner in the divine. This is the true significance of consciousness, which has a world-creating aspect. 

Purchase Tickets Here: https://jordanbpeterson.com/bible-series/
Support this Podcast on Patreon: www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
Self Authoring: https://selfauthoring.com/
Jordan Peterson Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com/
Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson

19 - Genesis - Chaos & Order

Lecture 4 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. I turned my attention in this lecture to the older of the two creation accounts in Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve. In its few short paragraphs, it covers:

1. the emergence of human self-consciousness;
2. mankind's attendant realization of vulnerability, mortality, and death;
3. the origin of the capacity for willful evil, as the ability to exploit that newly-realized vulnerability;
4. the emergence of shame as a consequence of that realization;
5. the shrinking from divine destiny that occurred when shame emerged; and
6. the beginning of true history, with the self-conscious toil that life in history entails.

Impossible. Amazing. Breathtaking.

The only story that can perhaps match it in terms of impact per sentence is that of Cain and Abel, which we discuss in the next lecture: number five in this twelve part series.

22 - Adam And Eve - Self Consciousness, Evil, And Death

Lecture 12 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar's banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac.

To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain? There are few eternal questions more profound and difficult.
In this lecture, I read an excerpt from Chapter 7 of my new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, now available for pre-order at http://amzn.to/2wkb7MY (Amazon.ca) and http://amzn.to/2x1hfXF (Amazon.com)
I am currently making arrangements to continue this series with a monthly lecture. That will start in September at a date and time yet to be announced.

30 - The Great Sacrifice - Abraham And Isaac

Preorder The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary: https://bit.ly/2OxhiGW

[1] 0:01:23 – Release of 50th Anniversary version of The Gulag Archipelago with a forward written by JBP
[2] 0:03:11 – Finalized deal for next book “12 More Rules: Beyond Mere Order”
[3] 0:04:11 – ‘12 Rules’ tour plans for the next year
0:07:39 – (Q#1) Any advice for young a young counselor soon to finish his degree? What do you wish you knew as a therapist?
0:15:28 – (Q#2) Procrastination and instant gratification rule me. Nothing seems to motivate me. What do I do?
0:23:58 – (Q#3) What do you think the feminine hero journey is? Do females have their own archetypal story?
0:28:13 – (Q#4) You caught some Twitter flak for your comment on Brett Kavanaugh. Care to address your comment and the blow back? 
0:39:38 – (Q#5) I took your Understand Myself personality test. Should I take the results as they are and live trying to cope with them, or can I try to change them to some degree?
0:47:18 – (Q#6) My daughter’s school is now teaching gender as a social construct. What do we do? Leaving is not an option.
0:54:49 – (Q#7) Would you consider adding a list of recommended movies to your site?
0:55:20 – (Q#8) Can the Understand Myself or other Big Five Tests be retaken after some time (1-2 years?)
0:58:41– (Q#9) Would you like doing a podcast with Elon Musk?
1:00:21– (Q#10) How do you fight a monster without becoming one yourself?
1:08:31– (Q#11) Canada has legalized marijuana. What are your thoughts?
1:12:45 – (Q#12) Do you have any advice on how to vet a potential marriage partner during the dating phase?
1:19:17 – (Q#13) You said you act as if God exists. Do you also act as if the devil exists?

European tour: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/events
Thank you all for joining me tonight, and for all the past and present support.

20% Discount code for https://www.selfauthoring.com: October
20% Discount code for https://www.understandmyself.com: October

Selfauthoring is a set of four online writing programs, designed to help people catch up with their past, understand their present personality and situation, and envision and plan a better future.

Understandmyself is a reliable, valid, modern personality test.

Additional relevant links:
My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life
12 Rules for Life Tour: Dates, Cities and Venues: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events/
My first book: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning
Dr Jordan B Peterson Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
Self Authoring Suite: http://selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: http://understandmyself.com/
Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast
Reading List: https://jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

58 -  October 2018 Q & A

On December 13, 2018, I was a guest on Femsplainers with Christina Hoff Sommers and Danielle Crittenden. We discussed, among other topics, the secrets of a long marriage, the problems with dating apps, how to handle a belligerent toddler, and the motivation of my radical feminist critics. Femsplainers (http://femsplainers.com/) is “the gossipy, smart, witty conversation you’d have if all of your girlfriends (and some of your guy friends too!) were experts on the hot topics of the moment. High spirited and high minded, we don’t argue or whine but seek to get to the heart of the matter, over cocktails (or wine).” We taped in front of a live audience at AEI, the American Enterprise Institute (http://www.aei.org/)

Ms. Hoff Sommers is the author of Who Stole Feminism? (https://amzn.to/2GJnkR4) and The War Against Boys (https://amzn.to/2SeuYo5) (a NY Times Notable Book of the Year) as well as Freedom Feminism (https://amzn.to/2Sfrd1B) , One Nation Under Therapy (https://amzn.to/2rNABOe) (with Dr. S. Satel), and The Science on Women in Science (https://amzn.to/2RaZyS1). She is resident scholar at AEI, studying the politics of gender and feminism, as well as free expression, due process, and the preservation of liberty in the academy. She has written for The Journal of Philosophy, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, The Daily Beast, and The Atlantic, and is host of the popular video blog, The Factual Feminist.

Ms. Crittenden is the author of What Our Mothers Didn’t Tell Us (https://amzn.to/2BBtzAC), a novel, AmandaBright@Home (https://amzn.to/2Lwr33c) (the first modern work of fiction serialized in the Wall Street Journal) and a cookbook, From a Polish Country House Kitchen (https://amzn.to/2Ra1H0n)(with Pulitzer-prize winner Anne Applebaum). She is a contributing editor to the Huffington Post, and has published in the Wall Street Journal, the NY Times, the Washington Post, and the Daily Telegraph. A former columnist for the New York Post, Ms. Crittendon has appeared on NBC’s Today show as well as CSPAN, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR. For more videos from Christina Hoff Sommers and the rest of AEI’s scholars, subscribe to their YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/WW5Zdm

NOTE: AEI operates independently of any political party and does not take institutional positions on any issues. AEI scholars, fellows, and their guests frequently take positions on policy and other issues. When they do, they speak for themselves and not for AEI or its trustees or other scholars or employees. More information on AEI research integrity can be found here: https://goo.gl/Hm8zqu

Additional relevant links:

My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life
12 Rules for Life Tour: Dates, Cities, and Venues: jordanbpeterson.com/events/
My first book: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning
Dr. Jordan B Peterson Website: jordanbpeterson.com/
Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: understandmyself.com/
Blog: jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
Podcast: jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast
Reading List: jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/
Twitter: twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Patreon: www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson

60 - Femsplainers - Christina Hoff Sommers And Danielle Crittenden

Happy New Year. This is the first of this year's Q and A's. I am going to answer audience questions, as usual, as well as discussing my next book, my impending departure from Patreon, and my upcoming tour to Switzerland, California, Australia and New Zealand.

If you were a Patreon subscriber and wish to continue with your support, then you can switch to http://bit.ly/2AIjkLe

The 50% discount coupon for the Future Authoring program (selfauthoring.com) can be used at http://bit.ly/2TKwf6H

Use coupon code NY2019

See you in a month.

[Announcements]
[1] 0:01:14 – Leaving Patreon in protest of recent banning of Carl Benjamin from the platform
[2] 0:03:24 – Working on new book, tentatively titled: “Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life”. List of rules included (see below). Estimated publication in Jan 2020. 
[3] 0:06:00 – Upcoming locations for 12 Rules Tour: Zurich, Australia, New Zealand
[4] 0:06:53 – Podcast release coming up with General Stanley McChrystal on his new book “Leaders: Myth and Reality”
[5] 0:07:30 – Recap of 2018, 50% discount on Future Authoring program 
0:12:30 – (Q1) Can you talk about your own experiences / methods for “shadow integration”?
0:25:28 – (Q2) How can I help my parents to sort themselves out? How can I talk about the resentment of my childhood in a way that benefits them instead of giving them guilt?
0:39:47 – (Q3) It took me 7 months, but I completed the Self Authoring Suite. I'm still not motivated to do anything and waste all of my time. What do I do?
0:47:31 – (Q4) I’m consumed by envy. I can hardly stand to read, watch, or listen to anyone more successful than myself. How am I aiming wrong?
0:55:38 – (Q5) How would you advise a person who has the courage to defy the crowd but doesn’t have the verbal skills to debate in real time?
1:01:01 – (Q6) The Tao Te Ching speaks of acting naturally. How is one to change and better their condition without unnaturally manipulating their world? 
1:07:02 – Q&A disrupted by a puppy rolling a bone upstairs   ^_^
1:10:34 – (Q7) I agree we don’t live in a tyrannical patriarchy. Can you provide a better explanation for the iniquities women faced, especially the delay in voting rights?
1:17:45 – (Q8) You have talked about earning your knowledge. How do you define this? When is it okay to debate ideas like yours if they are not your own?
1:23:45– (Q9) Have you ever considered having a debate with Slavoj Zizek? *
1:24:59– (Q10) How do you maintain a stable identity when you are plagued by bouts of depression and anxiety? 
1:33:51– (Q11) How are you always so consistently composed and confident?
1:40:22 – (Q12) How do you manage to read so much?
1:45:35 – (Q13) There are many drug-addicted and homeless people in my city, and it keeps getting worse. How do you help people who don’t want to be helped?
1:48:43 – (Q14) How do I stop ruminating? These thoughts are recurring and relate to any and every embarrassing moment I’ve had (I’m a 76-year-old woman)
1:51:16 – (Q15) What’s the best method to retain what you read and be able to use it in conversation?
1:53:54 – (Q16) I just found out that’s I’m having a girl. How can I raise her to think for herself and not fall into the modes of thinking proposed by popular culture?

Additional relevant links:

Website: http://jordanbpeterson.com/
12 Rules for Life Tour: Dates, Cities and Venues: http://jordanbpeterson.com/events/
Books: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: http://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: http://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning
Blog: http://jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
Podcast: http://jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: http://jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/
Self Authoring Suite: http://selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: http://understandmyself.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Support this channel: http://www.jordanbpeterson.com/donate

61 - January Q & A

A conversation with Dr Stephen Blackwood about Solzhenitsyn, our cultural inflection point, higher education, and the hunger of the young for meaning. Dr Stephen Blackwood is the president of Ralston College, a new university being founded in Savannah, Georgia. Ralston College is committed to an educational vision that enables students to lead lives of self-knowledge, freedom, and substance.

Stephen Blackwood
www.stephenjblackwood.com
on Twitter @stephenblackwd

Ralston College 
www.ralston.ac
on Twitter @ralstoncollege
Additional relevant links:

Website: jordanbpeterson.com/
12 Rules for Life Tour: Dates, Cities and Venues: jordanbpeterson.com/events/
Books: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning
Blog: jordanbpeterson.com/blog/
Podcast: jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: jordanbpeterson.com/great-books/
Self Authoring Suite: selfauthoring.com/
Understand Myself personality test: understandmyself.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
Instagram: www.instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson
Support this channel: www.jordanbpeterson.com/donate

62 - Our Cultural Inflection Point and Higher Education

Professor of Psychology at UofT, Lecturer, YouTube Personality, Author of Maps of Meaning & 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

61 - January Q & A

The Jordan B Peterson Podcast

Recent comments

Bilal Qandeel

Bilal Qandeel

Joey Bensah 1

Ali Albishi 2

Related tracks