The Joe Rogan Experience

#1070 - Jordan Peterson

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Jan 30, 2018
Clinical psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson discusses societal inequality, gender differences, controversial topics in academia, personal responsibility, human reward systems, navigating challenges, sudden fame, dietary changes, and the process of writing and refining his book.
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ANECDOTE

Wilfrid Laurier Teaching Scandal

  • Peterson recounted the Lindsay Shepherd incident where a TA was reprimanded for showing his debate clip and compared to Hitler.
  • He called the university response diagnostic of wider problems in academic administration.
INSIGHT

Temperament Shapes Politics

  • Temperament partly predicts political orientation: creative, disorderly types lean liberal; orderly, conservative types run organizations.
  • Both temperaments are necessary and must continually talk to balance innovation and stability.
ADVICE

Design A Future You Want

  • Craft a three-to-five year vision that justifies suffering and write a realistic plan to reach it.
  • Use the future authoring exercise to create a 'heaven' to move toward and a 'hell' to avoid.
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