Welcome back to this ongoing influx of insight, this bacon of light in a world of spam, the Patrick Coffin show.

So glad to have you back. I'm very happy to welcome back to the broadcast Dr. Jordan

Peterson. He is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and an author

and a clinical psychologist. He was on the show on February 3rd and it got a big round of interest and stats spike so I'm very grateful for his help in launching what you're now enjoying across the world.

I was looking at the Libson stats and it's very humbling to see how many people around

the world are downloading the show and enjoying it.

And today you're going to really enjoy it because we're going to go away from

a left-right conversation to down into the self and talk about an effective way of

envisioning a future that is full of productivity and meaning.

Dr. Peterson is the developer of a program called the, it's the self-authoring

suite.

We'll talk about the website again and again, and it focuses not just on past, present and future, but on virtues and how you can, in writing out your story, come to terms with things that have happened to you, the self that you feel you are now moving

forward. So Dr. Peterson, so glad to have you back.

God, thanks for the invitation. Looking forward to it. Maybe before we dig into the self-authoring suite, we can get a little update on the situation

we first discussed and that is the University of Toronto's mandating the use of certain pronouns for non-binary and trans people.

I know your initial lectures on YouTube went viral and generated a lot of media interest but also personal blowback against you and also you know

counter support it's a complicated world where do things stand now?

Well I would certainly say that the counter support has overwhelmingly counterbalanced the criticisms and critiques.

I mean, back in December, so I launched those videos at the end of September and they

cause a tremendous fear of newspaper articles and and online more online commentary and views than through conventional media.

But they also resulted in the university sending me two warning letters, taking me to task for my announced

refusal to use made up pronouns or what I regarded as made up pronouns like Z and Zr that I felt were Vanguard terminology for the radical

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