GET UP AND GRIND - Jordan Peterson (Best Motivational Speech)

when you go from a bad place to a better place you go to a worse place first it's a great thing to know because it also tells you why you might be unwilling to take the next step you know you're aiming up but in order to aim up you have to let go of something you already have and then that'll put you into a state of chaos and unless you're willing to undergo that intermediary state of chaos and you might not recover from it you're not gonna get to the next level many of you I presume have seen Breaking Bad you have this ordinary high school teacher who really thinks that he's an axe and his family as well you know like your typical persona roughly speaking he's just a normal guy but part of the reason that he's a normal guy is cause he actually hasn't been put in abnormal circumstances and then all of a sudden he is and he has a genuine moral conundrum right he's gonna die of lung cancer and his he has a has a son who's got a lot of health problems and he's terrified that he's going to leave his wife and his child behind with nothing and so he decides to do something that temporarily that he regards as what he would normally regard as reprehensible and of course he just gets tangled up in that but then as the story unfolds you see that there's it's more complicated because it's not that he was just innocent good guy and he decided to turn bad he's also very resentful and angry and it's partly because he's a bit of a pushover at the beginning or maybe more than a bit of a pushover and also that he didn't really fulfill his own potential and that you know he he had friends who walk down the entrepreneurial path and maybe they weren't quite fair to him but whatever he ends up not very successful as a high school teacher so he's really angry about that and so there's more motivation for him opening up the door to to the terrible elements of his personality than just the fact that he's got good motivations to do so and that that unfolds you know and so you see the warps and twists in his resentful character increasingly manifest himself as he walks down this road to really total brutality so it's one step at a time and that's the thing is that you end up in very bad places one step at a time so you gotta watch those steps sometimes you take a leap forward and you learn some things but you can't catalyze a new identity so you try to go back and hide in your old identity and that actually doesn't work because well things have changed and you've Learned something and that isn't who you are anymore and so it's like you have to cut part parts of yourself off in a destructive manner to fit back into the person that you were one of the times in your life when you actually realize that you're an individual is when you'll go and ask your parents something and you realize they actually don't know any more about what you should do than you do and that sucks and that's partly why people are often willing to maintain a tyrant slave relationship with their fathers like on the one hand you have to be inferior in a relationship like that you know you've always got the judge watching you but on the other hand there's always someone who knows what to do there's always someone standing between you and the unknown that you can go ask what should I do well at some point you'll realize that the reason you can't ask that anymore is because they actually don't know any more than you do and then that's a pain like that that is a symbolic death that's also when you establish a more individual relationship with your parents it's at that point that you could conceivably start taking care of them instead of the reverse and that's the time that should come but you have to let that image of perfection go and that exposes you when you're doubtful say you're trapped you ask yourself well why am I trapped that's a hard question right some of it's your own inadequacy you ask yourself you sit on the bed and say okay man I'm ready to learn something like what's one thing I'm doing wrong that I know I'm doing wrong that I could fix that I would fix it's like you meditate on that you'll get an answer and it won't be one you want but it'll be the necessary one we kind of experience life as if we're tossed into it you're male and not female you're Hindu and not Christian you're tall and not short you have an arbitrary range of talents and arbitrary range of limitations none of which in some sense you chose it's the cards you're dealt now some of those are cards of privilege now maybe you're born intelligent maybe you're born symmetrical maybe you're born healthy maybe you're born into a culture where it's much easier not to be absolutely deprived and so all of that in some sense is honor now the way you pay for your privileges with your virtue you have these opportunities and this existential guilt and the way you expiate that and atone is by doing your best to live the best possible life you can manage to speak the truth to treat people with respect to abide by the principles of the dignity of the individual and to put your house in order and that's how you pay for your unearned privilege and we all have our privileges and our curses all of us have that that's why it's not useful to be envious of people Carl Young said people in the modern worlds don't see god cause they don't look low enough and so imagine you're in your messy bedroom and you're sitting on the edge of the bed trying to have an honest dialogue with yourself and the little voice says you know it's pretty disgusting in here and you think well I'm way above such trivial niceties as organizing my room that's pride if you're above organizing what's actually yours how in the world are you ever gonna organize anything else well it's time to take a brush to the toilet and maybe that's where you start and that works you start making those micro improvements like real micro improvements real on the ground actual micro improvements to things you know that are wrong you'll improve unbelievably rapidly just look at how much opportunity you have to make things better not that it's easy we're built to walk uphill and when you reach the Pinnacle of the hill you want to stop and appreciate the vision but the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance because it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value and I mean this technically almost all the positive emotion we feel especially the emotion that fills us with enthusiasm that's experienced in relationship to a goal you want a goal that you can never attain so you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards you think well that's frustrating it's like Scizaphus pushing the rock uphill but it's not because as you pursue that goal you put yourself together and your life does get better and richer and more abundant you're here to live not to sleep the problem with the vision of my ties on the beach is that first of all that's a vision of drug induced unconsciousness second it's only gonna work for about a week third you're gonna be a laughing stock in a month and depressed and aimless I think that right solution to the most serious problems is to be found at the level of the individual Jung said for example that we all acted out a myth and whether we knew it or not and you know maybe you're acting out a tragedy maybe you're acting out narcissist you don't know because you've put that on yourself in an attempt in some ways to deliver to people what they want or more accurately to look as though you're delivering to people what they want someone who's really infantile and dependent someone who's never left home part of their problem is that they haven't crafted a persona so you don't wanna denigrated entirely but it's no substitute for the real thing and it turns out that not only is what we want from each other the real thing but that's also the adventure of your life if you aren't truthful and that means unfortunately especially at the beginning when you start to be truthful it means deeply coming to terms with your inadequacies in humility so it's very painful without that you don't have the adventure of your life you have the role that you've acquiesced to in my clinical practice in 20 years working with every sort of person you could imagine I never ever saw anyone get away with anything even once we're all subject not least to the judgment of our own conscience try to escape from that no one can escape from that we have to contend with that wisely and then you ask well how do you contend with things wisely and I would say well don't pollute your thoughts with deceit you compromise your own wisdom how are you gonna make intelligent not intelligent decisions wise decisions that's why you shouldn't lie you're warping the mechanism that orients you in the world I think Pinocchio is brilliant work of art and if you're a puppet and an actor and Pinocchio is both at times in that movie both a puppet and an actor so why an actor like why is there why is there something wrong with being an actor well the first question is who sets your role and then the second question is who's pulling your strings because you have to act out your ideals to some degree right and and you also have to formulate a Avatar of yourself in some sense that's a mediator between you and other people you need this this functional shell the problem arises when that functional shell is all that there is and then the real person underneath is just desperate and and unhappy because nothing of what's being acted out reflects a true underlying reality you don't want someone else's fate man your fate's enough so speak truthfully and you watch what happens well truth beauty and love save the world well you can find out

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Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 07 2024