Jordan Peterson Talks about YOU (People who Like his Lectures)

in my clinical practice I often see people who are high in openness because they're attracted to me because they watch my lectures and you have to kind of be high in openness to like my lectures so because well you do because they go everywhere you know and they're not necessarily very orderly so so anyways lots of my clients are really high in openness and they're funny people often especially if they're smart because sometimes they have the most nihilistic intelligence you can imagine it's just self-critical and nihilistic and brutally brutal man and smart and so they just criticize themselves out of existence and so often I have to just try to get them to quit listening to their chattering right self-critical rationality and go out and create something you know with their massive creativity and as long as they're doing that they're engaged in the world and happy as hell but as soon as that self-critical rationality comes in and shuts down the creativity they're just they're just like walking corpses you know and it's because if you're really open like that's you're a tree and it has some trunks and you know your your most prominent trait is the most lively trunk and if you're a creative person and you're not engaging in a creative enterprise you're just you're like a tree that that has been you that has had its vitality amputated and so this is not trivial this stuff is this is deeply deeply deeply rooted in your biology and and those are people often who have like dream lives you just can't believe I one client he has like four spectacular dreams a week and most of the time we just spend discussing and I mean God he and I had another client who could be lucid in her dreams which is more common among women she could ask the damn characters what they represented and they would tell her it was like okay that was pretty weird and like a lot of the things they told her were really helpful and they were not things that she wanted to hear she she basically one of them told her she if she was going to live she'd have to go visit a slaughterhouse and the reason for that was because she was raised as a little princess and protected from horrible mother nature until she hit puberty in which time she turned into an evil villain because that's how the family worked perfect child evil teenager overnight and then well that was hard on her and she wasn't prepared because she thought the world was princess world and you know she couldn't go through a butcher store without having a fit and no wonder you know like really Jesus you know it's no wonder but you do it but she couldn't so we used to go to butcher stores and that would make her cry and and that she was a vegetarian that would make her cry and it'll be moan the cruelty of the world and it's like you have fair enough man those are bloody slabs of meat it's like I don't know why everyone isn't screaming when they walk through the butcher store but but you got to get used to it man because you can't live in the world otherwise and so the dream character who was a gypsy told her that she had to go visit a slaughterhouse which seemed rather impractical and so I asked her if she could think of anything else to do and she thought well why don't we go visit a funeral home and and watching him bombing and I thought oh how good that sounds that sounds like a fun way to spend a day and so I phoned up a funeral parlor and I said I have a client who was terrified of death yeah and I was a therapist who was also a little shaky on the concept myself and so they had no problem with that they deal with death all the time which is really something to think about right a human being can actually have an occupation where they do nothing but deal with death and they don't go stark raving mad it's like what the hell's up with that it's like working in a palliative care ward where you're your clients that you you know have a relationship all they're going to do is die this week next week the week after people do that it's like those people are tossed man they're tough so anyways we went and watched this embalming which was I have a rather high level of disgust sensitivity so it was a little on the rough side for me but she sat there and first well she was not look we were outside this little room she was not looking at that man no way and she kind of go like this and you know that was pretty good and then she go like yes and then she go like this and then and she watched it and then she asked if she could go in and she put on the glove and she touched the body and she didn't have a fit she didn't have a panic attack and so she walked away from there learning that there's a hell a lot more to her than she thought there was and that she could see things that she didn't think she could see and live and after that she sort of had a touchstone it's like well I'm kind of afraid of this well is it as bad as going to see the embalming no it's not that bad well I guess I can do it it's like an initiation right she had an initiation and so did I you know and I learned a lot from doing that I learned that one of the things you need to do if you're going to be a human being is to prepare yourself to be useful in the face of death and so when you have a parent that dies which you know shatters people's ideas often they can't even think about it if you can't even think about that man you've got some thinking to do because you need to be able to at least think about that because otherwise you're just going to be a wasteland when it happens and you never know you could even have a higher ambition maybe you could even be useful when it happens instead of being part of the heap of destroyed people who also have to be taken care of you know and that's brutal you have to be brutal to be useful in the aftermath of your parents death you know you don't get to crumble and fall apart and knowing you have every reason to so you've got to be kind of some tough monster to manage that but you want to be useful in the face of tragedy or do you want to be pathetic well you make your choice you

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Length: 6min 30sec (390 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 22 2017