1138 | Jordan B. Peterson: “If You Can Think and Speak and Write, You Are Absolutely Deadly.”

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Sean Croxton

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this episode, Jordan Peterson highlights the importance of critical thinking, effective public speaking skills, and eloquent writing, for these are necessary skills for a thriving career and continuous opportunities.

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0:00.0	Yo, today's QWOD is, if you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly.
0:10.0	Here we go.
0:36.3	Welcome back to the QWOD today.
0:45.4	Today's QWOD is, being able to think, not just being able to think but using your
0:59.7	ability to really critically think, to look at different sides of issues and formulating
1:09.6	your own beliefs, your ideas and your opinions about things.
1:14.2	What's going on in our society?
1:16.5	An increasing pace is we're not thinking we're just accepting ideas from others and repeating
1:24.6	them.
1:25.6	I'm a conversationalist, I love to talk and ask about exchange ideas and ask why somebody
1:32.0	thinks what they're thinking so I can understand it more.
1:35.0	It is getting more and more challenging to find people who actually can support their
1:41.8	own opinions these days.
1:45.2	Not all of the time, but a lot of the time, that's the case.
1:50.7	And you aren't looking at all sides of something or as many sides as you can and you can't
1:55.7	support your own thoughts and your opinions.
1:59.2	It's very hard to speak them because there's a lack of confidence in them.
2:04.2	Because deep down you kind of know that there's gaps in your information, there's gaps in
2:09.3	your knowledge.
2:10.5	There's things that are missing and somebody can just literally come up to you and shred
2:14.8	all of your ideas very easily if they are a critical thinker.
2:20.3	And so thinking is huge.
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