An evening of Darwinian thought with Dr Jordan B. Peterson. Recorded and Published by Transliminal

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Ys4tQPRis&t

04 - Religion, Myth, Science, Truth

University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist, Jordan Peterson, delivers the 2010 Hancock Lecture entitled The Necessity of Virtue. He discusses virtue from a contemporary perspective that both encompasses and extends beyond moral and religious contexts. Through compelling stories and research, Dr. Peterson illustrates the necessity of virtue both for the individual and for society at large.

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

03 - The Necessity Of Virtue

Professor Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil, distinguishing it from tragedy, and presenting his ideas on how both the former and the latter might be most effectively dealt with.

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLp7vWB0TeY

02 - Tragedy Vs Evil

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

This is the first Big Ideas Lecture performed by Jordan Peterson, back in 2002. He reads a book for very young children by Jack Kent called "There's no Such Thing as a Dragon" to a group of University of Toronto alumni (most over 65). He explains what it means: Pay attention -- or else.


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06 - Slaying The Dragon Within Us

A conversation with Author Gregg Hurwitz covering a variety of topics, including Gregg's recent work, writing practices, perfection vs. wholeness, superheroes & archetypal heroes, how to balance intimacy and work, limits of comedy, free speech, and more.

Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of 17 novels, most recently, THE NOWHERE MAN. His books have been nominated for numerous awards, shortlisted twice for best novel of the year by International Thriller Writers, nominated for CWA’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, chosen as feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, honored as Book Sense Picks, nominated for the Galaxy National Book Award, and published in 30 languages.

Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios, and written, developed, and produced television for various networks. He is also a New York Times Bestselling comic book writer, having penned stories for Marvel (Wolverine, Punisher) and DC (Batman, Penguin). He has published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare, taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and internationally. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swum with sharks in the Galápagos, and gone undercover into mind-control cults.

Hurwitz grew up in the Bay Area. While completing a BA from Harvard and a master’s from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy, he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for his pole-vaulting exploits, and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow. He now lives in L.A. where he continues to play soccer, frequently injuring himself.

Links

The Nowhere Man - Gregg's Newest Orphan X Novel: gregghurwitz.net/orphan-x-thrillers/

Gregg's Website: gregghurwitz.net/

The Book of Henry - Gregg's Upcoming Feature Film: www.imdb.com/title/tt4572792/

The Penguin Graphic Novel: 
www.amazon.com/Penguin-Pain-Prej…itz/dp/1401237320

07 - Gregg Hurwitz

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

Part 1: Maps of Meaning: 4 Games People Must Play 0:32
Part 2: Maps of Meaning: 5 Grappling with Fear 27:59
Part 3: Maps of Meaning: 6 Submitting to Order 55:23

10 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 4 - 6

Part 1: A Message to Millenials: How to Change the World -- Properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOeO_frzvg&t

Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the call to social transformation. In this podcast, I outline why Truth is the proper route to societal improvement -- and why that starts with the individual.

Part 2: A New Years Message to the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o&t

A message for those who are looking forward to 2017. Thank you to all of those who have supported my efforts in the recent (and not so recent past).

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Here is the text of the letter, on my blog:
http://jordanbpeterson.com/2016/12/new-years-letter/
Link to Jonathan Haidt’s article on Truth U vs Social Justice U: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-social-justice/
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15 - How To Change The World

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.

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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. 

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19 - Genesis - Chaos & Order

Two-part interview with Transliminal Media's Jordan Levine, April 2017, in Vancouver, Canada. 

Sequel to the hit 2015 interview 'Religion, Myth, Science, Truth': https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis

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20 - Ideology, Logos, And Belief

The third lecture in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories Lecture Series. 

Although I thought I might get to Genesis II in this third lecture, and begin talking about Adam & Eve, it didn't turn out that way. There was more to be said about the idea of God as creator (with the Word as the process underlying the act of creation). I didn't mind, because it is very important to get God and the Creation of the Universe right before moving on :)

In this lecture, I tried to outline something like this: for anything to be, there has to be a substrate (call it a potential) from which it emerges, a structure that provides the possibility of imposing order on that substrate, and the act of ordering, itself. So the first is something like the precosmogonic chaos (implicitly feminine); the second, God the Father; the third, what the Christian West has portrayed as the Son (the Word of Truth). 

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21 - God And The Hierarchy Of Authority

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

Bible Series V: Cain and Abel: The Hostile Brothers

The account of Cain and Abel is remarkable for its unique combination of brevity and depth. In a few short sentences, it outlines two diametrically opposed modes of being -- both responses to the emergence of self-consciousness and the knowledge of good and evil detailed in story of Adam and Eve.

Cain's mode of being -- resentful, arrogant and murderous -- arises because his sacrifices are rejected by God. This means that his attempts to give up something valuable in the present to ensure prosperity in the future are insufficient. He fails, in consequence, to thrive, as he believes he should, and becomes bitter, resentful and murderous.

Abel's mode of being is characterized, by contrast, by proper sacrifice -- by the establishment of balance between present action and future benefit. This ensures his personal and social success, accruing over time. Unfortunately, it also makes him the target of Cain's malevolence.

This great short story is relevant personally, on the level of the family, and politically, all with equal force, all simultaneously.

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23 - Cain And Abel - The Hostile Brotherss

Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series
The story of Noah and the Ark is next in the Genesis sequence. This is a more elaborated tale than the initial creation account, or the story of Adam and Eve or Cain and Abel. However, it cannot be understood in its true depth without some investigation into what the motif of the flood means, psychologically, and an analysis of how that motif is informed by the order/chaos dichotomy, as well as by the idea of an involuntary voyage to the underworld or confrontation with the dragon. In consequence, this lecture concentrates almost exclusively on psychology: How is an encounter with the unknown to be understood, conceptually? How and why is that represented with themes such as the underworld voyage, the dragon fight, or the flood?
All that constitutes the theme of lecture VI.

24 - The Psychology Of The Flood

Life at the individual and the societal level is punctuated by crisis and catastrophe. This stark truth finds its narrative representation in the widely-distributed universal motif of the flood. Mircea Eliade, the great Romanian historian of religion, noted that flood stories identify two reasons for the destruction: (1) the tendency of complex things to fall apart of their own accord; (2) the proclivity of human beings to speed up that process by sinning, or missing the mark (by engaging in self-evident corruption, or by failing to attend to what cries out for attention). The Genesis story clearly states that Noah and his family are to be spared from impending disaster because Noah “walks with God,” as Adam did before the Fall. In this lecture, the 7th in the series, I intermingle the story of Noah and his survival with elements of the Sermon on the Mount, making the effort to explain to a modern audience why careful moral attitude and behavior comprises the best defense against “the righteous anger of God.”

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25 - Walking With God - Noah And The Flood

Lecture 8 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 
In the next series of stories, the Biblical patriarch Abram (later: Abraham) enters into a covenant with God. The history of Israel proper begins with these stories. Abram heeds the call to adventure, journeys courageously away from his country and family into the foreign and unknown, encounters the disasters of nature and the tyranny of mankind and maintains his relationship with the God who has sent him forth. He becomes in this manner a light in the world, and a father of nations.


How is this all to be understood? I am attempting in this lecture to determine precisely that. How are we, as modern people, to make sense of the idea of the God who reveals himself to a personality? How can we relate the details of the Abramic stories to our own lives, in the current world? In what frame of reference can these stories be seen to make sense, and to reveal their meaning?

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26 - The Phenomenology Of The Divine

Lecture 10 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 

The Abrahamic adventures continue with this, the tenth lecture in my 12-part initial Biblical lecture series. Abraham's life is presented as a series of encapsulated narratives, punctuated by sacrifice, and the rekindling of his covenant with God. This seems to reflect the pattern of human life: the journey towards a goal, or destination, and the completion of a stage or epoch of life, followed by the necessity of revelation and reconsideration of identity, prior to the next step forward. Abraham, for his part, makes the sacrifices necessary to continue to walk with God, or before God (as the terminology in this section has it). It is this decision that allows him to transcend the vicissitudes of life, and to take his role as the father of nations.

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28 - Abraham - Father Of Nations

Lecture 11 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 

Often interpreted as an injunction against homosexuality (particularly by those simultaneously claiming identity as Christians and opposed to that orientation), the stories of the angels who visit Abraham, bless him, and then rain destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah are more truly a warning against mistreatment of the stranger and impulsive, dysregulated, sybaritic conduct.

Abraham opens his heart and hearth to the stranger. The denizens of Lot’s soon-to-be lost cities threaten them with violent rape. God exacts a terrible retribution. The warning is clear.

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29 - Sodom And Gamorrah

Lecture 9 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series. 

In this lecture, I tell the story of Abraham, who heeds the call of God to leave what was familiar behind and to journey into unknown lands. The man portrayed in the Bible as the father of nations moves forward into the world. He encounters the worst of nature (famine), society (the tyranny of Egypt) and the envy of the powerful, who desire his wife. There is nothing easy about Abraham's life. Instead, he is portrayed both as a real man, with serious problems, and a hero, who overcomes tremendous obstacles to establish himself in the world.
His covenant with God is an Ark. His decision to aim at the highest good he can conceptualize places an aura of magic around the events of his life, despite their harshness. He's a model for life in the world as it is, not as we wish it would be.

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27 - The Call To Abraham

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

The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories starts up after a two month hiatus with the first half of the story of Jacob, the founder of Israel ("those who wrestle with God"), the man who robs his brother of his birthright, is deceived into marrying the wrong woman, and dreams of a stairway to heaven, in the ancient Shamanic tradition. 

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33 - Jacob's Ladder

Lecture 13 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. In this lecture, I present the second half of the story of Jacob, later Israel (he who struggles with God). After serving his time with his uncle Laban, and being deceived by him in the most karmic of manners, Jacob returns to his home country. On the way, he encounters an angel, or God Himself, wrestles through the night with Him. Successful in his encounter, he still sustains damage to his thigh, but earns the name Israel, and becomes the father of all those who to this day wrestle with God.

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35 - Jacob: Wrestling with God

Lecture 14 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series. This lecture closes 2017, and the book of Genesis. In it, I present the story of Joseph who, as the wearer of the coat of many colors, is profoundly adaptable, courageous, adaptable, merciful and just. Even in slavery -- even in prison -- he comes out triumphant, because of the strength of his character and his wisdom. Betrayed by his brothers, he acts to strengthen his family; unjustly accused by the Pharaoh's wife, he maintains his faith.

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36  - Jacob And The Coat Of Many Colors

From the Aspen Ideas Festival, recorded Tuesday, June 26, 2018. Jordan Peterson, author of the best-selling 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, may be one of the most famous intellectuals in North America today. He also may be among the most misunderstood. His fans say that he’s saved their lives, and detractors say that he’s the gateway drug to the alt-right. Who is this psychologist-philosopher whom so many of us had never heard of two years ago, and what does he really believe? Featuring Jordan Peterson in conversation with Bari Weiss. Hosted in the St. Regis Hotel Ballroom, Aspen, Colorado.

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54 - Aspen Ideas Festival: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars

Every month (or as close as I can get), I answer questions from the generous people who support me on Patreon. This is the Patreon Q & A from August 2018.

0:00:57 – Announcements
0:06:33 – (Q#1) How are you?
0:12:04 – (Q#2) What can a too-agreeable young woman do to be more disagreeable and assertive if that isn’t how she is temperamentally inclined
0:17:52 – (Q#3) How do you know if you’re communicating with the actual person or a mask? Can you ever really know someone?
0:19:45 – (Q#4) What new wisdom have you acquired in the past few months?
0:33:24 – (Q#5) If too much masculinity is tyranny but the right amount is order, and too much femininity is chaos, what’s the word for the right amount of femininity?
0:34:48 – (Q#6) Is it better to marry someone with your temperament or a contrasting, complementary temperament?
0:37:54 – (Q#7) It seems like your message is primarily positive-masculine, whereas the positive-feminine is not elaborated with near the same resolution. What do you think?
0:42:52 – (Q#8) I’m quite shy and when asked questions in public I find it hard to articulate a good answer but will come up with a strong response hours or days later. Any advice?
0:44:21– (Q#9) What causes a person to hoard?
0:45:53– (Q#10) Which Hogwarts house would you be sorted into?
0:46:23– (Q#11) What's your take on an astrological basis for significant dates in religious stories? Ex. the notion that Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun.
0:48:09 – (Q#12) My brother (29) is sick at home with burnout; he’s a perfectionist and has anxiety and trouble dealing with stress. How can I help him become stronger?
0:50:20 – (Q#13) How do you dress so well? Any tips?
0:53:47 – (Q#14) You have written an article on how to write. Can you do the same on how to speak?
1:01:48 – (Q#15) Thoughts on the Eastern idea of moving away from excessive thinking into the awareness beyond thinking.
1:09:29 – (Q#16) If he who is invited to the largest possible number of games is also the person that goes to conquer the unknown, could this lie in reciprocal altruism?
1:12:41 – (Q#17) Please confirm if your Harry Potter Patronus would a be frog
1:13:48 – (Q#18) I scored exceptionally low on conscientiousness, industriousness, and orderliness. What can I do for motivation?
1:15:34 – (Q#19) What do you think about Alice Miller and her thesis that most psychological diseases and aberrant behaviour are the result of childhood trauma?
1:18:07 – (Q#20) What if the truth could unravel your entire life?
1:19:38 – (Q#21) I think what put you over with so many of us is the constructive message of how to be a good person. Do you think that’s where the media want you to go?
1:23:46 – (Q#22) Would you agree with CS. Lewis that "if you look for truth, you may find comfort; if you look for comfort, you will find despair"

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Aion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self – Carl Jung

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55 - August 2018 Q & A

I spoke today with author Gregg Hurwitz (more information about him below). Hurwitz is currently working to rebrand the Democratic party, working to produce an issues-oriented, anti-corruption, practical mainstream narrative and to identify promising Democratic candidates who can hold their own in long form political discussions.

This is all in an attempt to end the dangerous polarization and concentration on ever more extreme ideology that seems to be destabilizing political discussion.

The video is in large part an invitation to the long-form discussion providers of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web to engage with such candidates, so that the public can see beyond the sound bites and spin and impression management and message crafting that has become an integral but pathological part of our traditional low-bandwidth media communication technology.

Let's see if we can find political candidates who can shine in a three hour discussion. We're done with the oversimplifications of the traditional media forms.

Background: Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 20 thrillers, including OUT OF THE DARK (2019), and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been published in 30 languages. Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios (including THE BOOK OF HENRY), and written, developed, and produced television for various networks. He is also a New York Times Bestselling comic book writer, having penned stories for Marvel (Wolverine, Punisher) and DC (Batman, Penguin). He has published numerous academic articles on Shakespeare, taught fiction writing in the USC English Department, and guest lectured for UCLA, and for Harvard in the United States and internationally. In the course of researching his thrillers, he has sneaked onto demolition ranges with Navy SEALs, swum with sharks in the Galápagos, and gone undercover into mind-control cults. Hurwitz grew up in the Bay Area. While completing a BA from Harvard and a master’s from Trinity College, Oxford in Shakespearean tragedy, he wrote his first novel. He was the undergraduate scholar-athlete of the year at Harvard for his pole-vaulting exploits, and played college soccer in England, where he was a Knox fellow.

He has increasingly turned his attention to the political sphere, in an effort to end polarizing discourse:

- Rebranding the entire Democratic party
- Working with a number of candidates and entities, from senators to the DNC/DCCC/DLCC
- Effort to get away from gridlock and into solutions

My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life/

Audiobook now available for 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/
Podcast: jordanbpeterson.com/jordan-b-peterson-podcast/
Reading List: jordanbpeterson.com/reading-list/great-books/
Twitter: twitter.com/jordanbpeterson
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56 - Gregg Hurwitz - An Invitation To The Intellectual Dark Web

In this exclusive, in-depth interview, author and clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson joins Dr. Oz to discuss how we can find meaning in our lives, challenge our thinking, and provide tactical ways we can reach our full potential. 

Take Dr. Peterson's full personality quiz: https://bit.ly/2yfmWSJ
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57 - Dr. Oz - Jordan Peterson's Rules To Live By

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.

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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

I spoke December 7, 2018 with Bjørn Lomborg, author and President of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a singularly innovative and influential US-based think tank. Mr. Lomborg and his team have done the hard conceptual and empirical work necessary to turn good intentions for global improvement into implementable and economically efficient strategies. That's really saying something. They have, among other things, analyzed the UN Millenial goals (169 of them, which is far too many), prioritizing and rank-ordering them in terms of practical implementability and costs and benefits. Those who claim to truly care about the world's dispossessed could do far worse than to study the work of Lomborg.

Relevant links re: Lomborg:

One-page overview of rank-ordered developmental goals: https://bit.ly/2QEVQjz

A collection of articles outlining the most appropriate targets for education, health, gender, infrastructure, etc. https://bit.ly/2SxAcec

Where should we focus: Lomborg's commentary in Times of India: https://bit.ly/2B02eYL

The top 19 targets for world development: https://bit.ly/2zP52bs

TED talks:

On prioritization: https://bit.ly/2r9Ce8Q

On the cost of global problems: https://bit.ly/2EhuRF3 (also a book: https://bit.ly/2BxHnjc)

Make yourself smart and informed on climate and other issues of sustainability and development:

Cool It:

Film: https://amzn.to/2RIP6P1

Book: https://amzn.to/2EiPwIF

27 climate economists and 3 Nobel Laureates examine where a dollar can do the climate the most good: https://bit.ly/2BWSe4j

The Paris Accord: Minimal outcome, $1.2 trillion cost (https://bit.ly/2zfYweU): explained in a short video: https://bit.ly/2L43DST

How to make government smarter (with the specific example of recent developments in Bangladesh): https://bit.ly/2zJzSCc

Additional relevant links (JB Peterson):

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

59 - Bjørn Lomborg

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
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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

A conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Sir Roger Scruton, moderated by Dr. Stephen Blackwood, introduced by Professor Douglas Hedley, presented by The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and Ralston College, held on Nov 2, 2018 in Cambridge, England. God willing (so to speak) I will be staying in Cambridge in October and November talking with the faculty at the Divinity School there about the book of Exodus prior to releasing a new series of videos about that biblical saga.

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Dr. Stephen Blackwood and Ralston College: https://www.ralston.ac/

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63 - Sir Roger Scruton

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

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