Jordan Peterson Live on Tour: The Hidden Key to a Fulfilling Life

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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In this powerful lecture from the We Who Wrestle With God tour, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson explores why stories aren't just entertainment—but the essential structure through which we perceive reality, aim toward meaning, and shape our lives. From biblical archetypes to everyday struggles, Peterson weaves a compelling argument that our suffering, identity, and moral choices are all governed by the stories we believe and the sacrifices we're willing to make. Drawing on deep psychological insight and ancient wisdom, he reveals that without a unifying aim, we drift toward bitterness and chaos—but with the right sacrifice, we forge a path toward meaning, community, and spiritual alignment. This “We Who Wrestle With God” tour stop was filmed in Reading, PA on October 14th, 2024.

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0:00.0	Since 2018, I've been traveling with my wife around the world
0:05.0	in what's essentially been a non-stop lecture tour.
0:08.0	It's quite a privilege.
0:10.0	It's a remarkable thing to be able to extend what I was doing as a university professor
0:14.0	to tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people around the world
0:18.0	and to have the privilege to lecture and think about
0:21.1	whatever grips me at the moment. We've recorded a number of these lectures. We're going to
0:29.8	release one that I delivered in Reading, Pennsylvania. I delved into the relationship between the concept of sacrifice and the idea of work.
0:43.3	Work is the sacrifice of the present to the future.
0:46.3	Work is the sacrifice of your own self-interest to that of your family and your community.
0:52.3	That's a good way to think about it. That self-sacrificial work is part of the proper foundation of the world.
0:58.8	I elaborated on those thesis in my book, We Who Wessel with God,
1:02.8	and I'm writing about it now.
1:04.6	I'm going to continue my lecture tour in Europe,
1:09.5	January through March of 2006.
1:12.2	And so if you're in Europe and you're interested in hearing a live elaboration of such ideas,
1:19.4	check out my website, jordanb peterson.com.
1:22.2	All the dates are listed there.
1:23.7	You have an opportunity to buy the tickets.
1:25.4	In any case, here's the lecture from reading
1:28.2	pennsylvania um i hope we hope the whole team here that you find it deep meaningful and useful
1:37.4	all right so i'm going to tell you a series of stories tonight um and i'm i'm going to make them
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