ENJOY LIFE ALONE - Jordan Peterson (Best Motivational Speech)

don't be so high and mighty that you don't take advantage of the humble opportunities that are granted to you when i look back i didn't like school at all you might say i hated it and i thought a lot about that you know because i thought well there were reasons you know i was a very fast reader i could get through the books that were given to us in english class generally in the first day and that wasn't really appreciated i would say but there were things and i was bored a lot as a teenager and and got into a reasonable amount of trouble not an unreasonable amount but but then you know there were sports teams and there were attempts to organize plays and there were things that i didn't do that i could have that would have made my life better but i was too cynical maybe to take full advantage of them and like i did work when i was a kid i worked in restaurants as a dishwasher shorter cook that sort of thing that was a really good decision i think my fondest memories in some ways of my adolescence are memories of working in the restaurant life is very difficult and in order to thrive with this difficult life if an opportunity is presented to you you shouldn't be so arrogant that you dismiss it and it's really easy to be arrogant as a teenager especially if you're smart because you think well i'm smarter than everybody else it's like actually no there's lots of people that are a lot smarter than you you just haven't met them yet and and you're not as smart as you think you are besides and other people aren't as dumb as you think they are either i would say if you're 16 and your life isn't so happy it's like look around and see if there are opportunities that people are granting you even imperfect opportunities because they're going to be imperfect that you could exploit let's say in the proper way and and learn and grow here's an idea yeah so life is brutal and what you have to say against that is possibility and you might say well life is so brutal that you have to utilize all the possibility that comes your way you know so an opportunity manifests itself and you turn it down you ignore it you let drift away it's like that's one thing that you had against the horror of existence that you let go of you let go of ten of those things man you're on the street right and it's no fun there and it doesn't get better and so there is a possibility that if you utilized all the possibility that was offered to you that your life would be straight and clean and engaging and acceptable and positive and that's worth finding out if that's the case because it might be true and so that's the reason to go out in the world and make some mistakes you know and then you're going to and so it's okay because it's okay to make the mistakes it's not so okay not to learn from them because then you make the mistakes again that seems pointless and so you're moving towards wherever you're going and it's working and so you get some positive emotion you get some motivation from this dopaminergic system that adds zest to life it adds interest and engagement and meaning to life it pulls you into life and so and that's worth thinking about i would say because if you think about it you know you have might wonder about whether or not you should be engaged in life and then if all of a sudden you're doing something and because you're doing it you get engaged in life then it seems like that might be the very definition of a good thing it's evidence the engagement is evidence that you're actually doing a good thing a worthwhile thing in life with all its suffering and misery and brutality it's like you've got a pathway you've got an aim you're moving forward you're engaged excellent but do what is meaningful and not what is expedient it's a deep deep instinct and way down and way down in your psychophysiological structure not as far down as the serotonin system but like next level up and so if it's saying hey man you're on the right track it's like that's worth noticing it's worth noticing now you can criticize it out of existence you can question your your aim continually it's one of the what would you call it dangers of our capacity to abstract but you know if you're a smart person who doubts you also might be smart enough now and then to doubt your doubt and just to notice and to pay attention that's what you need to do because you need to have a meaning in your life a name a value structure that's of sufficient potency and magnitude to justify the limitations and the trouble that life constitutes right it's not this is no trivial business that we're involved in right we're all in this up to our necks literally it's a it's a mortal game you're all in and and there's and and and to play it wrong is is is to risk suffering in hell and i'm not talking about afterlife not talking about something metaphysical you can generate plenty of hell right here around you plenty an unlimited amount and so you can move towards that direction or you can move towards a positive direction and you can orient yourself and you know you can know you can learn this is why the postmodernists are so incorrect it's like look you need a name you need a name you cannot organize the way you look at the world without a name it's not optional and then the question is well what should the aim be well probably not to radically increase the amount of misery and suffering that you experience in everyone else i mean maybe you want to go that route but [Music] and people do but i think they only do when they become bitter and they give up you know they and they make mistakes they know they're making right it's it's conscious decision to go down that route it's not like they think that's okay to begin with their aim's wrong it's like straighten out your aim so there's an old idea this idea of sin sin is a word that was derived from a greek word hamartia and hamartia is an archery term and it means to miss the target and so you think well how can you miss the target well you have no weapon well then you miss the target you you have no target you have no aim well then then you miss the target you don't pick up your bow well then you miss the target you don't draw it back then you miss the target you don't practice and and miss many times right because you have to do that to develop the skill to hit the target so you're not willing to take the risk to miss you you do none of that and so you miss the target and that's the sin and then you miss your life and then what happens around you is that well there's far more hell than there has to be and there's much less heaven than there could be and it's on you part of the reason that people go watch anti-heroes and villains is because there's a part of them crying out for the incorporation of the monster within them which is what gives them strength of character and self-respect because it's impossible to respect yourself until you grow teeth and if you grow teeth then you realize that you're somewhat dangerous and or maybe somewhat seriously dangerous and then you might be more willing to demand that you treat yourself with respect and other people do the same thing and so that doesn't mean that being cruel is better than not being cruel what it means is that being able to be cruel and then not being cruel is better than not being able to be cruel because in the first case you're nothing but weak and naive and in the second case you're dangerous but you have it under control and you know a lot of martial arts concentrate on exactly that as part of their philosophy of training it's like we're not training you to fight we're training you to be peaceful and awake and avoid fights but if you happen to have to get in one and i guess the philosophy also is is that if you're competent at fighting that actually decreases the probability that you're going to have to fight because when someone pushes you you'll be able to respond with confidence and with any luck and this is certainly the case with bullies with any luck a reasonable show of confidence which is very much equivalent to a show of dominance is going to be enough to make the bully back off and so the strength that you develop in your monstrousness is actually the best guarantee of peace and that's partly why jung believed that it was necessary for people to integrate their shadow and he said that was a terrible thing for people to attempt because the human shadow [Music] which is all those things about yourself that you don't want to realize reaches all the way to hell and what he meant by that was it's through an analysis of your own shadow that you can come to understand why other people are capable and you as well of the sorts of terrible atrocities that characterize let's say the 20th century and without that understanding there's no possibility of bringing it under control they're just like you and if you don't know that that just means that you don't know anything about people including yourself and then it also means that you have to discover why they're just like you and believe me that's no picnic so that's enough to traumatize people and that's partly why they don't do it and it's also partly why the path to enlightenment and wisdom is seldom trod upon because if it was all a matter of following your bliss and doing what made you happy then everyone in the world would be a paragon of wisdom but it's not that at all it's the it's a matter of facing the thing you least want to face you

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Length: 10min 38sec (638 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021