Jordan Peterson: Self Criticism

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[harrissimo]

I go through a very similar mental process when discussing things with others. It forces me to refine my thoughts. It is a philosophical guard rail, if you will.

[xyhmo]

Sometimes the inner critic is right, something for the self-helpy "silence that inner cirtic!" crowd to consider.

[sunilrampuria]

"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes"
-FN

[kevincounselling]

Great Vid; my personal notes:
He found that there were conflicting thoughts. The critic always bringing negative thoughts and the positive who was trying to get work done. He couldn’t decide which one was really him and so he made the decision that was better for his success and happiness.
He decided to train himself by “stop saying things that made me weak”. What he discovered is that he had to stop saying 95% of what he was telling himself. He found that he was mostly dead wood. He explains that most of our thoughts are absolute deadwood /useless waste and its fine if it burns off because the last 5% will be solid. The deadwood will not be able to weight it down anymore. Just like that, I need to only entertain thoughts that make me stronger and happier!

[orbitaljellyfish]

I can often sense, before I remember a song, that it’s just around some blind corner. As I can smell it coming lol. I always marvel at this… some part of my brain knows, but my mental speakers can’t yet play it back. Sometimes I welcome it but if it’s an earworm I quickly play (in my mental jukebox) something else more appealing.

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I have never related so much to something in my life

[Wolfie.]

What's the artwork at 3:05 if anyone knows

[DÆMONK]

If you are on this video and you feel like you're stuck and unable to move forward and can't find any data to justify that you are even making an attempt at making things better for yourself, just look at the fact that you're on this video. You are consciously trying to change and break these bad habits just by volunteeringly clicking on this video. We all got this. It'll take time but as long as we are actively trying everyday should be better than last

[orbitaljellyfish]

I think I disagree with… at least the semantics here. One’s own decisions connect hypothetical forethought to tangible actions. We’re in an ocean of unknowns, and it’s all gambles of various size. Considering odds and merits of every single thing and fraction therof is, itself, applied wisdom. Including the process turned toward oneself.

The choice is whether to frame that experience as either going for a bigger carrot or avoiding a sharper stick; each of those is an entire realm in and of itself; positive words are just as concrete as painful ones - what is YOUR appetite? What do you WANT it to be? Personally I love awesomeness and coolness (!!).

Jordan’s vocabulary often veers toward a bit of dark humor and harshness, which is endearing and effective, but it’s also (IMO as a fellow sufferer/recoverer of this) unnecessary and not the most effective for the self, and in particular others, especially those intent on weaponizing their own reactions and feelings to support counterarguments to otherwise cerebral content. This is likely evolutionary (“thinking, fast and slow”) and also a cultural carryover from prior generations’ mean average (pun intended) of harshness; to perhaps be reductive, “boomer” mentality - but most importantly it’s also a CHOICE to continue this or move in a wiser direction.

Peterson appears to correlate all this with self identity and regrading actual self worth. On the contrary, I think it’s a process and perception thing and very much like describing an ordinary brick with either French or Spanish. I want the dopest ideas and coolest outcomes from people not being dicks but being very capable of critical thinking…via (among other things) decisively disassociating the merits of ideas from their personal ownership of said ideas. My identity and ego are quite fine. If I pick a rotten apple off a tree of ideas SO WHAT. Just pick another one. Our culture is getting way too reductive and confusing suggestions with lobbying, shooting the idea messengers, and a variety of other things we could all do better. So like, let’s do better.

[whocares.]

What is with that tie? Does he even look in the mirror before stepping outside? Geez