Face Your Fears | Jordan B Peterson

What you need is exactly where you don't want to look.

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[spyguythesamurai]

Peterson echoes Jung so well here when it comes to overcoming anxiety. "What you most what to find will be found where you least want to look."

[aleidius]

“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”

[johnathanfaircloth]

Only Jordan Peterson could make me fall in love with my own feelings of Anxiety, as I now acknowledge that they are merely the itch of opportunity.

[daedra]

I have just faced my fears of confronting my lecturer about my final year project, and stop ignoring it. I am very happy, and this video title is quite serendipitous of that!

[TheFusedplug]

When I first discovered Jordan Peterson around 2016/17 I was in the depths of hell at that particular time.
I wont go into every sordid detail but by then I was a binge drinker that found himself addicted to crack cocaine and heroin.

At the time of writing this (Feb 2021) I'll be 48 this coming March

Now I'm clean and in the process of creating a path to business armed with a few thousand in the bank and it started with cleaning up the room I was in and then sorting the entire flat.

There's still plenty of work to do on myself ! But I am in a much better place now thanks to this incredible bloke .. anyone else here have a similar story?

[marcellelabuschagne]

This Jungian Arthurian concept of "entering the forest at the point that looks the darkest to you" reminds me of Stoicism, the saying that "the obstacle is the way" essentially: the thing that you think is the biggest obstacle to achieve your goal IS the exact thing you need to almost embrace in a sense, in order to overcome and get to the goal.

[Steven-wzsh]

"Resistance is your friend."
A professor and mentor said this often.

[jdf]

Over the past ten years I've traveled through the depths of dark depressions, through world's of unending pain that stole my appetite, my ability to work, to shower and to sleep. I somehow managed to keep a hold of my now wife. Become more consistent in going to work. I keep up my therapy to sort out all of my past, present and future. An I continued to add Titans of thought such as Peterson, Hitchins and the like who have helped me through an opressive religious upbringing. An now I have a wife coupled with a few loyal and healthy family members and a few friends who help to support me away from the black hole of chaos that looms just outside of me giving in and allowing fear to consume me. Anyone with depression please walk down the path you least want to and find the healthy supports you need and please hang on and face your darkness. Never give up, you are more valuable and powerful than you can possibly imagine!

[fear_less_]

"who the hell wants a 6 year-old 40 year-old" typical JBP humor! love him.

[fish]

This is so much harder to follow then just to agree to. I took this to heart a while ago harkening to its wisdom. Only to find myself five days later literally hiding under my desk shaking with fear from crippling anxiety.

I reached out to someone as my state worsened and they guided me to my own fears. Facing your fears is easier said than done.

[BuyBBStonk]

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

[cameronmitchell]

I don't agree with everything Jordan says but i have to admit he makes me think, in alternatives, every single time.

[colinmcmullin]

You can tell a man who has internalized knowledge by how infrequently he looks at notes.

[jessejamesbm]

I’m about to host my first meeting with corporate after years of avoiding public speaking, like since middle school, wish me luck boys

[davidneyra]

8:49 "If you were an informer you were often amply rewarded by the state so if you lived on a overcrowded apartment building with three families in the same flat and you informed on the woman down the hall that you didn't like, she got shipped off to the old concentration camp and you got her apartment. That was a lovely society". I love how he puts a little cherry on top of the cake.

[MojitoMatt]

Resistance is a symptom of the way things are, not the way things necessarily should be. Actual victory belongs to things that simply do not see failure.

[powersdustin]

I’m changing my career path. In the middle of the road and I’m leaving California, where the career that would’ve paid very well would’ve been. But the world is what it is and I would hate that job despite the money. So I’m leaving and I’m scared of feeling lost or getting more lost than I already am.

[shellsbignumber]

Jordan reminds me of a lot of my teachers at school, only difference is Jordan is good at what he does and my teachers were terrible at what they done.

[lavachebeadsman]

"I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that reads: HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN. Potential may be worse than none, Jim." - David Foster Wallace

[Candlewick]

Trying to find courage to see if my cancer returned. This is helpful.