312 - Jordan B. Peterson: 12 Rules for Life: A Solution to Suffering

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🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jordan thinks about things, people pay attention, and he gets paid for it. His YouTube channel has tens of millions of views. He’s a clinical psychologist, professor and author of “12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” Show...

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:10.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.9	You have to choose your pathway of suffering.
0:17.9	That's one way of thinking about it.
0:19.9	And you can choose the suffering that's associated with deceit and arrogance and resentment
0:24.1	and bitterness or you can choose the suffering that's associated with truth.
0:27.3	And the thing about the suffering that's associated with truth is that that transcends
0:30.7	the suffering.
0:31.7	It starts to make things better.
0:33.9	And it's real.
0:34.9	It's real.
0:35.9	Deceit makes life worse and truth makes it better.
0:39.7	There's chaos to confront.
0:41.7	There's order to reestablish.
0:44.2	And the world would be a lesser place if you didn't do it.
0:47.2	So give me an example of like let's say someone's listening to this and they say to themselves
0:51.7	you know what?
0:52.7	I went to school.
0:54.1	I went to graduate school.
0:55.1	I've been at this job for 20 years.
0:57.1	I kind of have this simmering chronic low depression.
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