Jordan Peterson | How Social Media Affects Us

footage from SFL 2017 | Vancouver, BC

The UBC Free Speech Club proudly Co-hosted SFL 2017. Our speaking guests were Dr. Jordan Peterson. Jonathan Pageau, and Bret Weinstein.

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[donna.g]

I'm 77 and will soon be dead from prostate cancer. Jordan Peterson and other truth seekers give me some hope that Western/World civilization can be saved from the anti-rational and anti-evidence based ideology/religion of the radical Left.

[jameszhang]

"You're smarter when you write because you can externalize your thoughts and then you can use your working memory to analyze what you've written instead of remembering the thought." I thought this was quite remarkable.

[annamaria]

Before I was introduced to JBP by my 30 year old youngest son, I was in hell! That was two years ago. I got the future authoring program at 57 years old!
I cleaned up my room! I got rid of all of the things that I knew were doing me harm in my life. A toxic relationship, alcohol, opioids and people who certainly did not want me to get well! I owe my future outlook on life to Jordan B Peterson.
God bless this man.

[charitymontgomery]

Listening to him is like drinking a glass of cool water when you're super thirsty.

[SensSword]

Anyone else listening to this while cleaning their home? Just finished all the floors. Half way done on laundry. Even washed my cats.

[Rayth]

Watched hundreds of his videos over the last 3 years, and just as I think I've heard everything he has to say, he still surprises me with more insight in every new video.
JBP you're a gift to the world. Thank you for existing.

[LaszloMag]

I'm happy to see there are still uploads of JBP that are not titled "Jordan Peterson DESTROYS blablabla"

[drditup]

Peterson makes me less agitated and more inclined to be responsible

[doctorj]

"We are more technologically advanced as we are wise." Thats like the quote of the century!

[Clrendon]

My brain always runs smoking hot when listening to Jordan, which is a good thing - I pray he will be around for a long time.

[paulomendoza]

Filipino here, flip charts do not offend us just to be clear

[techytimo]

This man is a genius. Im halfway in listening and am already pausing to reflect then rewinding and taking notes because I just find every statement he makes to be so deep, powerful, well researched, fresh and enlightening.

[swipesomething]

"We better be careful about what our morality is if we are going to automate it." Metaphorical punch in the face.

[CantThinkofaCoolOne]

Love the man. Any topic that he discusses goes way beyond expectations.

[skyluke]

*"What people truly desire above all else is the freedom to have responsibility"*

[sazzam]

Cleaned the house while listening to this and feel so motivated to get my life together. Just hope this energy lasts! Thanks for the wise words!

[AJWOOLAWAY]

I love this man. No one has ever done so much for me

[tennoboi]

An Indian Here, I wish people in my country listened to awesome role Models like this man! My country needs people like this!

[brooklynrobotworks]

This is absolutely fantastic. Two years old now, his book was just coming out; he had no idea what was coming... This is a great self-explanation of the roots of how this all came to be.

[AlexCookaacook]

19:59 ... one of the things I learned from Jung, which really has never ceased to shock me, was his — see he basically made a point, and the point was that you’re not master in your own house, that there are forces that are operating on you at an unconscious level that determine, for example, the direction of your attention.


So, for example — you know how sometimes you’ll read something and it’ll really grip you. And then you’ll read something else and like, you can’t even concentrate on it. And you might say, “well I need to concentrate on this boring thing.” You know, because an exam depends on it or a promotion and there’s just no damn way. You’re reading it and your attention flicks all over the place. And you know, you’re undisciplined and all that. But then you have this other thing and it just grips you like this. And you think, “Ok, well what’s doing that?”


It’s not your will because your will would be the thing that would allow you to concentrate on whatever you chose to concentrate on. It’s something underneath your will that’s actually directing your attention. And you could say, “well it’s random” but of course it’s not. It’s maybe random if you have a serious case of schizophrenia. And I think in some sense that’s actually the definition of schizophrenia but it’s not random if you’re a functioning human being. The thing that grips your attention and directs it to one place or another is something that’s, well it’s a deep instinct, it’s a manifestation of what Jung called the self, which is a very interesting idea. So, Yung thought — it’s such a cool idea — he thought that the mechanism that directed your attention in the present was your future self attempting to manifest itself in the present world.


So you might say, well, you have a potential and that potential is what you could be in time. And in order for that potential to manifest itself it has to be palpable in the present. And the way that instinct for further development manifests in the present is by directing your attention towards things that are likely to increase your competence and further your growth right now.


And that’s just an unbelievable idea. You know, it’s like your potential better self beaconing to you in the present. 😮