Clean up your room by Jordan Peterson

This is a process of soul-searching. What are you oriented towards? And the answer could easily be nothing. You got to be oriented towards something, because otherwise you're disoriented. You just spin around in circles and then you suffer, and so do people around you. It's not a good solution. Orient yourself towards something. You have to figure out what it is. What will work for you? What goal would would justify the suffering of your life? Start trying to piece that together. You're going to get better at it, but it's a personal process. You should use your education to inform that. So you need a personal place to stand, because otherwise you're going to be handed a place to stand on a plate. And it maybe one that that makes you a puppet of someone else's goals. So I would say: What are the processes? What I've recommended to people is: "Clean up your room!" That's a good start. Organize your local landscape. Schedule your time. Start taking control of yourself. See if you can stop saying things you know to be lies. That's not the same as telling the truth. You don't get to do that to begin with, because you're not good enough at it to even attempt it, in some sense but everyone can stop saying things they know to be falsehoods. They can use their own damn definition of falsehood. Here's another idea: Stop saying and doing things that make you feel weak. Or that's something you could do. You don't have to. You don't have to do any of this. But I would say that's where where people should start. You start small. It's not small. You think it's small. It's not small. I had a girl come up to me last night at the end of my talk And this happens all the time. She said: "I started cleaning up my room last year and it completely changed my life." She said: "Your room is an externalization of your mind." And that's right. That's exactly true to the degree that you're in your room- the room is you. Now that isn't how people think. But that's okay. It doesn't matter. If they think that way. That's how it is. So straighten up what you can straighten up and quit saying things that make you feel weak. And then you'll know what to do next

Channel: Petar Stamenkovic

Views: 16,522

Keywords: Jordan Peterson, clean up your room

Id: NP4NxfuZ71Y

Length: 2min 8sec (128 seconds)

Published: Mon May 29 2017