What to do if Life Seems Meaningless? - Jordan Peterson

imagine that you're pursuing a given goal whatever it is maybe you want to get married you want to have children and then you think well who the hell cares in a hundred thousand years what difference is it going to make anyways and then all your motivational energy is drained out by that sort of nihilistic thought now one thing you can think in relationship to that is well that nihilistic thought is accurate because that's a superordinate time frame and if you had any sense that's the time frame across which you would evaluate things and you just have to pay the price of the non of the meaninglessness of your life or you could say well wait a second if I'm pursuing a goal and I use a frame of interpretation that renders it a motivational one possibility is that I'm using a counterproductive frame of reference and that's actually what my nervous system is signaling to me so one of the discussions we could have is like is it reasonable to use your sense of deep meaning as a guide to Optimal functioning in the world like I think it's the Instinct that is literally that guide

Channel: BEING MENTOR

Views: 359,025

Keywords:

Id: LB6mCIC771U

Length: 0min 59sec (59 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 10 2023