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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

318. Autism, Academics, and Animals | Dr. Temple Grandin

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueSXh Dr Jordan B Peterson and Temple Grandin discuss the pros and cons of visual and verbal thinking, as well as categorization, animal welfare, targeted activism, and the importance of hands-on learning opportunities. Temple Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed for handling livestock are used by companies all around the world. Her work has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs, now used by Mcdonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods, and many other major corporations. Temple has appeared on numerous shows across platforms, such as 20/20, Larry King Live, and Prime Time. Grandin is an accomplished author, with books such as Thinking in Pictures, Livestock Handling and Transport, and The Autistic Brain. A few of her other publications, Animals in Translation, as well as Visual Thinking, have even made it to the New York Times Bestseller List. In 2017, Grandin was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 2022 she was honored once again as a Colorado State Distinguished Professor. - Sponsors - Black Rifle Coffee: Get 10% off your first order or Coffee Club subscription with code JORDAN: https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ Exodus90: Is it time for your Exodus? Find resources to prepare at https://exodus90.com/jordan. - Links - For Temple Grandin Visual Thinking (Book): https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Thinking-Pictures-Patterns-Abstractions/dp/0593418360 Grandin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drtemplegrandin Granin’s website: https://www.templegrandin.com/ - Chapters - (0:00) Coming up (1:00) Intro (3:00) Visual thinking and categorization (6:32) Thinking in words, comparative invention (8:50) Associative thinking, dreams (12:00) Thought process (13:00) Autism, things out of place (16:40) Skill loss, screened out (20:00) Two types of visual thinking (24:50) Skillsets geared toward visual thinkers (26:00) Grandin demonstrates associative thinking (28:15) Dreams and association webs (30:50) Cohen, shop taken out of schools (33:45) Virtualization, exposure learning (36:30) Removed from the practical (38:00) Citations, proof (41:30) Recommendations for visual thinkers (46:23) Working in tandem (47:50) Broad and pointed design (55:40) Gap between the practical and abstract (59:30) Competition, neuro diversity (1:02:00) Privileging of the semantic (1:04:00) Vintage textbooks, object visualization (1:07:00) Mechanics are not being replenished (1:08:30) Fragility of our power grid (1:10:40) Behavior of cows, follow the leader (1:16:45) Stopping cattle, novel attractors (1:18:50) Voluntary exposure (1:23:55) Humane slaughter, distress (1:27:00) How the plants work (1:28:20) Grandin on her early career (1:33:35) Animal welfare, targeted activism (1:36:40) Why cattle? (1:38:34) Facing fear and backdoors // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.com/youtubesignup Donations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate // COURSES // Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS // Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning // LINKS // Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com Events: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Blog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blog Podcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast // SOCIAL // Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson All socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus #csu #coloradostateuniversity #autism #livestock #animalcruelty #motivation #visuallearning #dreams #education

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, I'm usually excited to have whoever I'm talking to that day on my show

0:21.7

because I pick people I'm excited about talking to but I'm particularly excited about

0:25.7

my guest today, Dr. Temple Grandin revolutionized the animal handling industry over the last

0:33.4

40 years and has done more for animal welfare in a practical sense than anybody that I know

0:38.9

of and perhaps anybody on the planet, I think you could make a case for that. She's a remarkable

0:43.3

person I saw first in Tucson, Arizona, I'll talk about that a little bit in our interview.

0:48.1

She gave one of the most compelling presentations I'd ever seen in an academic setting at a conference

0:52.8

on consciousness and saw that about 15 years ago and ever since then I'd really been wanting

0:59.1

to meet her and I got to do that today so that's so exciting. So I'll just give you a brief

1:03.2

bio and we'll pop into the interview. Dr. Temple Grandin is a professor of animal sciences

1:09.6

at Colorado State University. Facility she is designed for handling livestock are used

1:14.3

by companies all around the world. Her work has been instrumental in implementing animal

1:19.3

welfare auditing programs now used by McDonald's, Wendy's, Whole Foods and many other major

1:25.2

corporations. She has appeared on numerous shows across platforms such as 2020 Larry King

1:31.4

Live and Primetime. Dr. Grandin is also an accomplished author with books such as Thinking

1:37.7

and Pictures, livestock handling and transport and the autistic brain. A few of her other publications,

1:45.1

as in translation as well as visual thinking, have even made it to the New York Times best

1:51.7

seller list. In 2017 Dr. Grandin was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and

1:57.7

in 2022 she was honored once again as a Colorado State Distinguished Professor. We're going

2:04.3

to walk through her book today and we're going to learn what she has to say now about thinking.

2:14.1

Let's start with visual thinking in language. So do you want to tell people about your realization

2:19.9

about different thought patterns? When I was in my 20s I thought everybody thought in

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