Welcome to the first episode of season two of the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.

My name is Michaela Peterson and I've been working with my dad for the last year.

We've decided to do this podcast as a joint project because we thought it might be something

fun and meaningful to do together.

For this episode we're presenting Dad's 12 Rules for Life to Our Lecture at the More

Theater in Seattle on June 21st, 2018.

The lecture covers the evolution of religious thinking, the true human universal.

Everyone has to deal with the problem of value.

Everyone has to determine what is of more or less importance, what's a priority, and

what is not, or they can't act, or even perceive.

So the problem of value has to be solved or at least addressed by everyone and that's

what makes it a universal issue deep enough to play a biological as well as a social

rule.

So, Dad, what goes into the prep for a lecture?

I usually sit backstage for about 45 minutes to an hour, sometimes sleeping a little bit,

sometimes not.

I usually try to pick a problem of some significance that I've been working on that's

related to my book.

So the problem has to be stateable.

Might be the problem of, for example, one of the most recent lectures I did was on why

I don't like to answer the question whether or not I believe in God.

So that's a specific problem.

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