Take OWNERSHIP of your Life | Jordan Peterson EP 473

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jordan Peterson explores why we suffer, explaining life's innate adversity becomes needlessly amplified by human failings like deceit and shirking responsibility. He advocates rediscovering meaning through adopting responsibility to justify existence, easing guilt by acting with conscience and living up to potential. Peterson notes we spontaneously admire those exemplifying the instinct for meaning by overcoming challenges. Overall Peterson encourages lifting burdens off others' shoulders by developing self-reliance, capitalizing on talents, and adopting the responsibility creating meaning that makes suffering bearable.

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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 seat of your life and unlock your potential.
0:18.0	And that's why I'm thrilled to share that my new book is out right now.
0:21.0	It's called The Greatness Mindset. In it you'll learn how to build a plan for greatness through powerful exercises and toolkits designed to propel your life forward. This is the book that I wish I had 20 years ago.
0:34.4	It's everything I've learned in the last decade with the research and the science to
0:38.6	help you unlock your mind. Make sure to go to Lewishouse.com slash 2023 mindset to pick up your copy of my book The Greatness Mindset today.
0:52.0	Why is there so much conflict in the world? Is it because there's so many
0:57.4	different perceptions that people have? Part of it, of course, there's conflict
1:01.0	because we have real problems and so life is actually
1:04.4	difficult independent of the obstacles that we put in our own path.
1:07.8	It's already it's already fatally challenging right life, life is the ultimate challenge.
1:13.9	We will die.
1:14.6	Yes, yes.
1:15.6	So there is a challenge.
1:17.2	Yeah.
1:17.4	Yes.
1:18.2	Well, uncertainty, fear, pain, all the thing, all the thing, everything that goes along with suffering is a challenge and it's it's the full challenge because it takes everything you have
1:28.2	Part of the reason we disagree is because there are complex problems to solve and then we also disagree because we're willfully blind
1:34.4	and because we're more ignorant than we should be,
1:36.8	and we're not everything we should be,
1:38.1	and we tilt towards malevolence from time to time,
1:40.9	and we betray each other and ourselves. And so we take a bad lot in many ways and make it worse.
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