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🗓️ 9 December 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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On a previous episode I spoke to Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, about what he endured after refusing to use strange new pronouns to accommodate new "gender identities." So I thought: why not discuss the guy's actual work, rather than just his travails? In today's episode we talk about "self-authoring," a program of personal improvement and self-knowledge that has had staggeringly good results.
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0:42.2 | I've gotten a lot of emails from people saying, I started listening to your show because my friend told me I'd like it. |
0:47.3 | And sure enough, I'm binging on the episodes now. So that's great. |
0:50.8 | Well, today we're joined once again by Jordan Peterson, who was on the program not long ago |
0:55.6 | to talk about his travails at the University of Toronto with the politically correct crowd |
1:01.0 | because he won't go along with the gender pronoun issue, with the idea that there are |
1:07.8 | multiple genders in the dozens and dozens or hundreds perhaps, |
1:11.4 | and there are different pronouns that ought to be used for people, correspond to these. |
1:15.3 | He just said, I'm not doing any of this, and you can imagine what happened. |
1:19.0 | So we talked to him about that. |
1:20.7 | But I thought, it's a shame. |
1:21.7 | Here's a guy who does really good scholarly work. |
1:24.6 | He's a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the |
1:27.8 | University of Toronto. Before that, he was a professor at Harvard University. So I thought, |
1:32.2 | you know, why should we let the terrorists win? The terrorists have won if Professor Peterson |
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