The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors
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Joseph Betrayed, Sold, And Transformed
- Peterson retells Joseph's brothers stripping his coat, selling him, and faking his death.
- The story sets up themes of envy, betrayal, and eventual transformation in Egypt.
Misfortune Alone Doesn't Justify Corruption
- Character, not just circumstance, determines whether hardship corrupts you.
- Many who suffer refuse to become malevolent and instead grow in integrity.
Integrity Thrives Even In Slavery
- In prison and Potiphar's house Joseph prospers because he refuses to betray his integrity.
- His competence earns him favor despite his external bondage.
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
The Moral Decisions of the Old Testament
02:06 • 3min
Cane and the Writhers - The Improper Way to Engage
05:13 • 3min
The Fratricidal Motif
07:45 • 2min
Psychopathology
09:50 • 4min
Is There Evidence for a Transcendental Morality?
13:33 • 2min
Is It Not Only Faith, but It's Faith in Being as Such?
15:06 • 3min
The Nature of Reality That You Have to Struggle With
18:25 • 3min
The Beginning of the Story of Joseph
21:22 • 4min
Are You Socially Anxious?
25:39 • 4min
How Much of You Could Be Turned on if You Go a Whole Lot of Different Places?
29:35 • 2min
How to Get Rid of Negative Emotions
31:40 • 3min
The Star Recurs in Pinocchio, Right?
34:37 • 3min
The Blue Fairy in the Pinocchio Story
37:13 • 4min
The Circumambulation
40:51 • 2min
The Perfect Opportunity Manifested Himself to You in Your Incomplete Form
42:47 • 3min
How to Overshoot Madly as You Learn a Language
45:32 • 4min
Psychic Development - Is There a Linear Evolution?
49:27 • 2min
The Crucifixion of the Cross
51:31 • 4min
The Coat of Many Colors
55:57 • 2min
How to Make a Job Work for You
57:52 • 5min
Is It a Good Idea to Have a Dream Twice?
01:02:54 • 2min
Are You Responsible for Your Dreams?
01:04:36 • 5min
We Shall See What Will Become of His Dreams
01:09:41 • 2min
How Does It Profit Us if We Kill Our Brother and Concealed His Blood?
01:12:00 • 4min
The Only Real Misfortune Is to Be Corrupted
01:16:08 • 3min
Lung Cancer
01:18:54 • 3min
It's This Again, Rgt.
01:21:49 • 4min
The Old Testament and the Exodus Story
01:25:40 • 6min
The Inappropriate Way to Engage
01:31:14 • 3min
The Fratricidal Motif
01:34:16 • 5min
Is There a Dicodomy Between Productive and Destructive Paths?
01:38:53 • 2min
Is It Enough to Establish a Positive Relationship With Being?
01:40:30 • 2min
Is There a Realm Outside of Time and Space?
01:42:56 • 6min
What Do You Do When You're Anxious?
01:48:38 • 6min
How Much of You Should Be Turned On?
01:54:14 • 3min
Are You Looking for a Goal?
01:56:49 • 4min
The Secret of the Soul in the Pinocchio Story
02:00:35 • 2min
The Circumambulation
02:02:43 • 3min
The Circumambulation
02:06:00 • 3min
The Degree of Overshooting Continues to Decline
02:09:00 • 2min
Is It OK to Wander Around Stubbornly Before You Fix Your Destiny?
02:11:00 • 2min
The Fact That You're Full of Faults Doesn't Mean That You Have to Stop
02:13:25 • 4min
The Cross Marks the Place of Maximum Suffering
02:17:19 • 2min
The Centre of All Things Manifested
02:19:39 • 2min
The Coat of Many Colors
02:21:21 • 2min
Dishwashing in a Restaurant Is Not a Menial Job.
02:23:01 • 5min
A Dream You Have Twice Is Trying to Punch Something Home
02:27:43 • 5min
The Cane Inabel Story
02:32:47 • 2min
We Shall See What Will Be of His Dreams
02:34:43 • 2min
How Does It Profit Us if We Kill Our Brother?
02:36:25 • 3min
Is Your Character Corrupted?
02:39:40 • 4min
Lung Cancer
02:43:42 • 2min
'It Comes to Pass,' Says the Pharaoh
02:45:45 • 4min
The Pharaoh's Dreams
02:49:48 • 3min
How to Deprive a Rat of Leep
02:53:13 • 2min
Is Everything Going Well Now, but You Should Wake the Hell Up?
02:55:38 • 2min
The Pharaoh's Responsibility
02:57:37 • 2min
The Archetypal Story
02:59:36 • 4min
The Man Who's Lord of the Country Spoke Roughly to Us and Took Us for Spies
03:03:10 • 3min
The Pathology Within Families
03:06:22 • 4min
Is Your Father Well, the Old Man of Whom You Spake, Whom Ye Spake?
03:09:52 • 2min
The Cup Is Found in Benjamin's Sack
03:11:36 • 4min
The Forgiveness of Joseph Is Wise Forgiveness
03:15:44 • 4min
Is There a Place That's So That You Can't Do That?
03:19:59 • 5min
Judah Is a Lion's Whelp From the Prey
03:25:26 • 4min
The Newest God, the Newest of All Possible Monsters
03:29:13 • 3min
The Lord's Prayer for Thee, Forgive the Trespass of the Servants of the God of Thy Father
03:32:14 • 4min
A Question With Two Parts About Your Knowledge of of Hebrew
03:36:03 • 3min
Psychic Death, Also Known as an Ego Death?
03:38:35 • 2min
What Is an Ego Death?
03:41:02 • 2min
I'm Not Going to Die at Any Moment, but I've Observed That
03:42:53 • 3min
Doctor Peterson's Lecture on the Zigzag Slide
03:45:41 • 2min
The Cane Side Is More Powerful Than Good
03:47:52 • 2min
Will the Love Issue Be Solved?
03:49:59 • 3min
Alchemy: The Prime Alchemical Dilemma - Solve Coagulation, So You've Built a Moral Structure?
03:52:55 • 2min
The Hyper Simplified Morality
03:54:47 • 3min
What's the New Year?
03:57:45 • 3min
He My Plea Is Ben a Plea
04:00:40 • 4min
OCD - It Was You, but It's Also God's Doing
04:04:19 • 2min
The Myth of Mental Illness
04:05:57 • 3min
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.
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