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The Daily Motivation

Confronting Adversity Head-on | Jordan Peterson EP 387

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Self-improvement, Education

4.8960 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Peterson emphasizes that adversity is an essential aspect of life. It's through facing challenges and hardships that individuals develop resilience, character, and the capacity to confront the unknown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:07.0

I firmly believe that taking charge of your mindset allows you to be in the driver's

0:14.9

seat of your life and unlock your potential and that's why I'm thrilled to share

0:19.2

that my new book is out right now it's called The Greatness Mindset. In it you'll learn how to build a

0:25.3

plan for greatness through powerful exercises and toolkits designed to propel your life forward.

0:31.6

This is the book that I wish I had 20 years ago.

0:34.7

It's everything I've learned in the last decade

0:37.1

with the research and the science

0:38.5

to help you unlock your mind.

0:40.4

Make sure to go to Lewishouse.com slash 2023 mindset to pick up your copy of my book, The Greatness

0:47.2

Mindset today.

0:48.2

Do you think you would still be able to have the ideals, the belief, the fortitude that you have to reach people and really impact people?

0:59.0

Yeah, I think so, but I know what you're saying, you know, your question is, well, to what degree is adversity character building?

1:05.6

And the answer to that is plenty. It was the same with my wife. We weren't naive people, you know, because I had an extensive clinical practice.

1:12.4

I was dealing with heavy level adversity

1:15.3

always.

1:16.3

It wasn't your daughter.

1:18.3

No, no, you know there were other problems in my family and so forth that I dealt with as well. We'd already, I think, garnered most of what we could from

1:27.4

confronting adverse situations. Now, did that add a different level to it?

1:33.0

Probably brought her family closer together, all things considered.

1:36.0

I saw the same thing happen when my wife's mother died.

1:39.0

She died of prefrontal dementia, and she developed it quite young.

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