Why We Need to Go Into the Unknown - Prof. Jordan Peterson

In this excerpt of his lecture “Biblical Series IX: The Call to Abraham” psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson discusses the importance of following your interest and going where you don't know.

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[vijayragav]

Maybe I need to stop overvaluing the opportunity cost and start trying out big projects in life. Being safe from failure is the biggest danger after all.

[Seafarer]

I've literally traveled around the world a few times now... been to dozens of countries. With every new place I see, I love America all the more because of it.

[nicholas]

I'm stuck in the Darkest Dungeon.

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It's part of his online service “Self Authoring” that helps you to analyze your past, to get your present life in order and to identify a more rewarding path for your future. It’s not free, but it has been proven to work in studies performed with university students.

Jordan Peterson Fan Channel is an official affiliate of the program, so if you follow the link above through, you will not only support Jordan Peterson and his endeavors but also this channel in a small way - and most importantly yourself. Thank you.

[Sebastianguitar]

Me watching the thumbnail.
*So now JBP is my ancestor and narrador of Darkest Dungeon*
*Singular Strike*

[davidlawrence]

Whew .... i mean at 11:23 "You are not comitted to somthing unless you are willing to sacrifice for it "

[zerozilch]

Dirt farmer / levon helm is a good song.

[Mobiusub]

As a young immigrant I can say the country is doomed. The kids are so spoiled and privileged yet lazy and ungrateful.

[daytonhershey]

Sacrifice wouldn't necessarily mean to kill. Could also be to sacrifice bad habits for good; this for that. See figured it before the end 👌

[Visiden]

Interesting thumbnail as "the unknown" the pointing man in the picture ventured into turned out to be the Darkest Dungeon.

[The_Natalist]

The problem of the modern age is Nihilism/Atheism leave nothing to sacrifice for, and therefore, nothing to live for.

[benj]

Great Video I think, although I don't agree 100% with Peterson. First thing, I think he underplays the control you have over your own mind. IMO you can make yourself interested in something, at least for me that it's possible. Or maybe I'm just naturally interested in everything, I don't know.
Second, I don't agree with his arguement, that my interests, my feelings, are beyond me and thus compelled by a omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent entity. I don't believe these things to be the making of a supernatural entity outside of me, but rather a result of a feedback cycle which evolved over millions of years. I don't think humans have anything that makes us special than other forms of live, other than maybe our complexity. I don't believe that there is a soul or a ethereal essence guiding our actions or influencing them in some other way, but rather that every effect preceived now, be it the action of someone or their interests or feeling, is the result of countless inputs, past events, genetic predispositions and such. I think, that since the quantum layer of reality is mostly probablistic, but those probabilities eventually converge in the macro layer und thus become deterministic, that the whole macro universe is deterministic in the end and we just lack the ability to comprehend the complexity. What seems for others to be the evidence of some greater force I just think is merely a mechanism which is too complex for us to grasp. It was the same in the past everytime.

[loki]

First view. I feel special. Great video Dr. Pederson.

[jameswallis]

Infinite unlimited energy - is infinite ammo in a light rifle.

[ultraboyx]

Is he an Atheists?
Wonder why he likes to quote the bible.

[msfsaint]

JP trying to become Anti-Nietzsche, or Nietzsche 2.0 has made him as boring and impenetrable as Nietzsche. 1.0.

[rohitbhardwaj]

well after second round i no more doubt that the bottle he drinks from has some gin in it!

[Mav_fly]

Sometimes peterson makes it seem like he believes in evolution and we're homosapiens, and other times he seems religious. I don't get it