My Notes For Maps Of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson If you are interested in reading books about unmasking human nature, consider reading The Dichotomy of the Self, a book that explores the great psychoanalytic and philosophical ideas of our time, and what they can reveal to us about the nature of the self.
The Risk of Skateboarding When children are taking risks, such as skateboarding, should you stop them? The intuitive answer is to protect your child from any activity that is considered dangerous, including skateboarding. But denying your child from taking risks is more dangerous. Children take risks because they want to be competent – it is … Read more
The world reveals itself as tools, not as objects. We don’t waste time processing the boring details of everything we see. We only care about the usefulness of things. Many of us don’t think about the complexity of our cars or laptops until they break down. Only then are we forced to understand what’s going … Read more
My Notes For Maps Of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson In this lecture, Peterson explores the archetypal similarities across the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Christian and Buddhist myths. Belief Systems You have a mode of being – this is how you operate in the world. When other people accept your mode of being, your emotions are … Read more
Peterson recalls an encounter with a client who claimed to be raped five times. She was confused and traumatized, but something was deeply wrong with the way she operated in the world. Of course, there are many legitimate reasons (such as undesirable familial circumstances) that would have confirmed her role as victim. Had Peterson only … Read more
Do we need God to make sense of life? Jordan Peterson and Susan Blackmore debated whether God was necessary for meaning to exist. They first discuss the nature of memes and archetypes. Susan Blackmore subscribes to Dawkins’ idea of memes as being separate from genes in that they are not biological, but that they are … Read more
My Notes For Maps Of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson Patterns of Symbolic Representation In this lecture, Peterson explores the nature of the unknown through mythological symbolism, and explains why the unknown is necessary. The Antidote to Nihilism It’s not enough to just be lawyer or plumber, you need to ground yourself in something greater … Read more
When Peterson was later asked which rule he found hardest to follow, he said it was this one. Don’t Lie A form of lying (to yourself) and to others is to espouse overly simplistic “truths” about the world. People who tell you that capitalism, the patriarchy, and the government are evil are engaged in self-delusion. … Read more
My Notes For Maps Of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation Jordan Peterson’s eighth Maps of Meaning (2017) lectures discusses the neuropsychology of symbolic representation (how our brain’s right and left hemispheres process the known and unknown differently), and the story of Mesopotamian myth of Marduk. Categories What are most real categories? … Read more
Get While the Getting’s Good Life is suffering. Enjoy it while you can. We may be licensed to reason in this way since there is no denying the initial proposition, but it isn’t only that life is suffering. Human beings for thousands of years exhibited patterns of behavior that were somewhat predictable, but we never … Read more