1188 | Jordan B. Peterson: “Do Not Do Things You Know to Be Stupid.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jordan Peterson puts the significance of our well-being above all else. In other words, you’re empowered with a choice to refuse to be someone who bows down absolutely to any kind of system that causes you misery and resentment.
In the context against the backdrop of bureaucracy, Jordan explains that you should object or refuse at the outset, especially when people ask you to do anything that will demotivate you and make you miserable in the long run. Like Viktor Frankl once said, "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." In the same way, Jordan underscores our capacity to choose wisely, especially those that concern our peace, well-being, and happiness.
Source: The Danger in meaningless Work - Jordan Peterson
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| 0:00.0 | Yo today's QLD is do not do things you know to be stupid here we go |
| 0:30.0 | welcome back to the quarter of the day show I'm your hope shine cracks in a |
| 0:35.9 | shine cracks in dot com we got Jordan B Peterson back on the show you know |
| 0:42.2 | I tend to you know not talk too much about social and political stuff on the |
| 0:47.0 | show I like to save that for my Instagram story so you can find them there but |
| 0:50.9 | I really think we need to talk about this particular topic I had a friend |
| 0:56.1 | recently over at the house and she was like Sean when I'm at work I feel like |
| 1:00.9 | I'm walking on eggshells like there's this big list of words we can no longer |
| 1:05.4 | say and it's just she just she was resentful about it you know you're at work |
| 1:11.4 | a third of your day when you feel like you're walking on eggshells at work for |
| 1:17.9 | a third of your day that can make your life kind of suck that can make you very |
| 1:22.5 | bitter about your work and make you not like your place of work and so there's |
| 1:28.8 | so much silliness going on with language and political correctness and on and |
| 1:33.7 | on and it is really up to you it is up to us to stand up and speak out and be |
| 1:39.1 | like yo this is silly because if we don't then it takes over and we find ourselves |
| 1:44.3 | for a third of our day a third of our week being somewhere that we really don't |
| 1:49.5 | want to be and so Jordan B Peterson's gonna break this down he does it really |
| 1:54.3 | well here's Dr. Peterson |
| 1:58.4 | anyway so there's Horace and then there's the guy on the on the right there is |
| 2:04.7 | set and he's like the precursor of the Christian representation of Satan in |
| 2:09.0 | fact the name Satan seems to have been a transformation of the name set and |
| 2:13.6 | set is actually he's like the god of totalitarian possibility because in |
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