Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Badly | Jordan Peterson | Best Life Advice

"Part of the reason that people don’t become enlightened is because it’s punctuated by intermittent catastrophes."

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➤➤Speaker:

Jordan Peterson

➤➤Video Sources:
Biblical Series XV: Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors by Jordan B Peterson

➤➤Music:
"Regret" by Whitesand
"Bill & Francie" by Whitesand
"Altruistic Soldier" by Whitesand

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WordToTheWise

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➤➤Transcript (partial):
There’s this idea in Jungian psychology called the circumambulation. Jung had this idea that you had a potential future Self, which would be, in potential, everything that you could be. It manifests itself moment to moment in your present life by making you interested in things. The things that you’re interested in are the things that would guide you along the path, and lead you to maximal development.

It sounds like a metaphysical idea—or a mystical idea, even. But it’s not. It’s really a profoundly biological idea. The idea is something like, ‘well, you’re set up so that you’re automatically interested in those things that would fully expand you as a well-adapted creature.’ There’s nothing radical about that idea. What else could possibly be the case? Unless there’s something fundamentally flawed about you, that is what the situation would be. It’s kind of interesting to think about how that would be manifest moment to moment, but the idea is something like, ‘well, your interest is captured by those things that lead you down the path of development.’ Well, that better be the case.

Ok, so that’s fine. There’s some utility in pursuing those things that you’re interested in—that’s the call to adventure, let’s say. The call to adventure takes you all sorts of places. The problem with the call to adventure is, what the hell do you know? You might be interested in things that are kind of warped and bent. Often it’s the case that, when new parts of the people manifest themselves—and grip their interests, say—they do it very badly and shoddily. So you stumble around like an idiot, when you try to do something new. That’s why the fool is the precursor to the saviour, from the symbolic perspective: you have to be a fool before you can be a master, and if you’re not willing to be a fool, you can’t be a master.

It’s an error-ridden process, and that’s also laid out in the Old Testament stories. The first thing that happens to all these patriarchal figures—when God kicks them out of their father’s house, when they’re like 84—is that they run into all sorts of trouble. Some of it’s social, some of it’s natural, and some of it’s a consequence of their own moral inadequacy. So they’re fools. But the thing that’s so interesting is that, despite the fact that their fools, they’re still supposed to go on the adventure, and they’re capable of learning enough—as a consequence of moving forward on the adventure—that they straighten themselves out across time. It’s something like that.

The circumambulation that Jung talked about was this continual circling, in some sense, of who you could be. You might notice, for example, that there are themes in your life. When you go back across your experiences, you kind of have your typical experience, that sort of repeats itself. There might be variation on it, like a musical theme, but you’re circling yourself, and getting closer to yourself, as you move across time. That’s the circumambulation. Remember that for a second, because we’ll go back to it.

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[seand]

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor

[cermauler]

A person who asks is fool for a moment. A person that does not ask is fool for a life.

[wisewords]

I wish everyone here a successful new decade.
Become the best Version of yourself !

[notalltheories]

“Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s a part of it.” William Ritter

[BillSchimmer]

I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from hearing this message, including myself at 56 yrs old. thank you

[NSLM]

*A fool who persists in his folly will become wise.*

- William Blake

[sharootere]

"The best day, to plant a tree, would have been 50 years ago.
The 2nd best day is today!"


Lets do it! A great new year to everybody who is working on themselves!

[fegelein]

"that's why people stay with the devil they know, rather than finding the devil they don't know."

Damn that hit deep

[nativecompanion]

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm. Winston Churchill

[sprezzatura]

"Enlightenment is punctuated by intermittent catastrophes"

[Nick_Portillo]

Jordan Peterson is the father we all needed

[alexrandall]

Man cannot reinvent himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
-Alexis Carrel

[dooovde]

As a perfectionist this hit home hard. It prevents me from attempting anything I know I'm not fully capable of completing without fault. That may be fine in the workplace (most of the time) but in social situations where failure is a given it just arrests any kind of emotional development. I'm a 13 year old in the shape of an adult. Being a perfectionist in life is NOT a good thing.

[IFREEDOM]

You have to be a fool before you can be a master.

[Darknight]

I give myself permission to fail.Then I will become successful.

[ravishingtwinkle]

Perfectionists need to watch this. Make mistakes. Take risks. Attempt.

[alejandrodelabarra]

"Even if you had the best idea, in your incomplete form, the probabilty that you see it as an oprtunity is zero".
The best phrase of all the times.

[mufasachainbreaker]

"The difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise many realizes he is a fool, then adapts to the situation."

[frederickgregg]

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly…watch a child learning to walk :-).

[akpolska]

It's been almost 5 years I've wanted to leave the life I was living here in Belgium. Some called it successful as I climbed the professional ladder quite fast but I couldn't feel satisfied. Now I left and sold everything and I two weeks I'm flying to Bogotá where I bought a bike to tour South America. I think that if I had seen those videos earlier I wouldn't have waited that much