Jordan Peterson - Are You a Good Person?

Psychology Professor Dr. Jordan B. Peterson advises to civilize and incorporate your shadow into your psyche, because otherwise it has the potential to overtake and possess you when the circumstances allow it.

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[hoyavp]

I love this guy. I have severe depression and ptsd from the military and being homeless and alone. He hit the nail on the head. Pray for me please. Trying to get a job interview today.

[free_at_last]

This man is absolutely spot-on in regards to PTSD. It's not usually the combat itself, like they show in the movies, it's your failure to save a friend who died. It's things that tell you things you don't want to know about the world or yourself.

[Peter_]

I am looking, and looking, and looking, and nowhere can I find the slightest trace of Jordan Peterson being "sexist", "racist" or "transphobic" in any way.
What I find instead is video after video with him giving valuable life advice and trying to understand humans in general.

[JebeTheGreat]

I have been a terrible person. I have used people as objects to fill my own needs and desires. I've fed people lies and false hope of something amazing, all the while knowing none of it would ever come to be. I was an all around disgusting piece of work.

But with the help of some people, especially one in particular, who too had been wronged by me, I have been able to turn my life around and leave my awful behaviour behind me. It was through their help that I finally came to understand the person I was, and to despise my actions. It lead to an extremely strong need to get my shit together, to thrive to be a better person.

I'm still working on it, and am nowhere close to being what an ideal person would be, but I'm hopeful that one day I'll get there.

[JoneThePwn]

I'm trying to "sort my life out" and part of that is realizing I watch way too much youtube and it just sucks up time like no other.

As a result of this

I've unsubscribed to most of the channels I used to follow. I have far fewer subscriptions--but I value the channels I'm subscribed to much more. It really helps me waste less time on Youtube. Now, the time I DO spend on Youtube is more productive and positive.

I highly recommend it!

[SPACEDOUT]

One of the most brilliant people i've ever encountered

[EricDec]

Breaking Bad: a chemistry teacher starts cooking meth.
Boiling Bad: a psychology teacher starts cooking lobsters.

[kimlec]

This idea that if you are harmless you are moral is wrong. Professor Peterson speaks the truth. In contrast to the "if it feels good, do it" crowd. Are we too far down the wrong track to get back to truth & reality? It's important to realize we are capable of great harm, and then to be careful with ourselves & others. That is, full of care. About the consequences of what you say & do. It matters. It really does. It gives weight & meaning to every single word & thing we spend our lives doing ! Frightening if we confuse goodness with harmlessness. Like he said in another video...sometimes you need to let others know you have teeth & can "bite" them, but choose not to. Now, that, dear Internet Friends, is morality.

[justinfacer]

I used to think I was a good person but really I was just a nice person. That realization made me a much better man. Thanks Jordan

[jacobandersen]

3:12 “Sorry I have a new phone and I’m kind of stupid with it still.”

My ego just sky rocketed. I have found one thing that may put me above JP in any small way.

EDIT: No, I’m definitely still stupid with my phone. Humbled.

[BitesizedPhilosophy]

I was going to show a different clip today, but I considering the heated discussion in the Atheism video, I thought I would show you something that is relevant to Dr. Peterson's arguments. It is easy to confuse harmlessness with morality and it's even easier to consider oneself as good when the circumstances are easy and comfortable. Don't take this as a snarky remark, I just want give a bit of background for his arguments.

[kaiserhoff]

An honest man is one who knows he cannot consume what he has not produced.
Ayn Rand

[linkenski]

He reminds me so much of my English Teacher from high school. He also had absolutely resonating and profound things to say but sometimes it would be the result of a simple question like "But how do I get this done before tomorrow?".

Funny thing is almost nobody but me liked him. They thought he was too absolute and critical but I liked that. I disliked all the "friendly" teachers, I thought it was too much.

[soridosuneku]

I thought this said “Are You A Good Peterson”

[almor]

'I have seen the true face of evil. it is not cackling emperors but the petty actions of small men, devoid of consequence or full of zeal.' paraphrase from the red country by Joe Abercrombie

[AR-fhqu]

"No tree it is said can grow to heaven, unless its roots have reached down to hell"~Carl Jung. I tell this to anyone if they tell me im a very nice person or if im a very bad person.

[BiscuitZombies]

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.” - C. Jung

[TV-dgkm]

i wish i had such a professor in my university

[Nelster]

Definitely not a good person. Even as a kid my heart was full of arrogance, envy and jealousy towards others. I'd manipulate my older cousin and make him give me his stuff by guilt tripping him when he got better gifts during a holiday or won something in a competition and I didn't... Had to experience some crushing circumstances resulting from my dumb choices after university for me to start seeing the depth of my evil.

[Funkywallot]

Back in the days, reading Dostovejskij, Carl Jung, a little bit of Nietsche, Kirkegaard (Existensialist) I never grasped either one commentary and concept of being human and working as a full human being. It was all a game to me.
Well imagine my surprise Jordan Peterson tied all the loose ends together (for my scattered studies in Philosophy), and watching his lectures made me realize that I still want to commit to the human race thanks to all the disturbing literature ive read as a late teen, passed as a game, but not so anymore.