The Difference Between Knowing and Understanding | Jordan Peterson | Best Life Advice

"People can know things at one level, without being able to speak what they know at another."

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➤➤Speaker:
Jordan Peterson

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Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God

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➤➤Transcript (Partial):
You may know, you may not, that I’m an admirer of Nietzsche. Nietzsche was a devastating critic of dogmatic Christianity—Christianity as it was instantiated in institutions. Although, he is a very paradoxical thinker. One of the things Nietzsche said was that he didn’t believe the scientific revolution would have ever got off the ground if it hadn’t been for Christianity—and, more specifically, for Catholicism. He believed that, over the course of a thousand years, the European mind had to train itself to interpret everything that was known within a single coherent framework—coherent if you accept the initial axioms. Nietzsche believed that the Catholicization of the phenomena of life and history produced the kind of mind that was then capable of transcending its dogmatic foundations, and concentrating on something else. In this particular case, it happened to be the natural world.

Nietzsche believed that Christianity died of its own hand, and that it spent a very long time trying to attune people to the necessity of the truth, absent the corruption, and all that—that’s always part of any human endeavour. The truth—the spirit of truth—that was developed by Christianity turned on the roots of Christianity. Everyone woke up and said, or thought, something like, ‘how is it that we came to believe any of this?’ It’s like waking up one day and noting that you really don’t know why you put a Christmas tree up, but you’ve been doing it for a long time, and that’s what people do. There are reasons Christmas trees came about.

Nietzsche was a critic of Christianity, and also a champion of its disciplinary capacity. The other thing that Nietzsche believed was that it was not possible to be free unless you had been a slave. By that, he meant that you don’t go from childhood to full-fledged adult individuality: you go from child to a state of discipline, which you might think is akin to self-imposed slavery. That would be the best scenario, where you have to discipline yourself to become something specific, before you might be able to reattain the generality you had as a child. He believed that Christianity had played that role for Western civilization. But, in the late 1800s, he announced that God was dead.

You often hear of that as something triumphant, but, for Nietzsche, it wasn’t. He was too nuanced a thinker to be that simpleminded. Nietzsche understood—and this is something I’m going to try to make clear—that there’s a very large amount that we don’t know about the structure of experience—that we don’t know about reality—and we have our articulated representations of the world. Outside of that, there are things we know absolutely nothing about. There’s a buffer between them, and those are things we sort of know something about. But we don’t know them in an articulated way.

Here's an example: You’re arguing with someone close to you, and they’re in a bad mood. They’re being touchy and unreasonable. You keep the conversation up, and maybe, all of a sudden, they get angry, or maybe they cry. When they cry, they figure out what they’re angry about...

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[PracticalInspiration]

His comments on Nietzsche have always fascinated me, he understands his work at a deep level and it's critical meaning.

[RezaMolavi]

it is mind-boggling to me how he can be so deep and structured and so coherent. The speed in which he can think and he can articulate these complicated thoughts is truly unique. Notice, he never uses verbal junk food either.

[viktoriaregis]

I feel that way about Jordan Peterson. When I read his book 12 rules for life, and when I listen to his lectures, it is as if he express exactly something I've had inside me and knew for a long time, but I have not been able to articulate it. And then he comes along and just verbalise it all right into the core of the soul.

[johnsonmarwan]

This man is profoundly intelligent with a razor sharp intellect. Such a coherent expression of complex theories... It is amazing.

[fredericksharon]

No matter how many books people would read, public speaking without a pause is tough 😆 respect JP

[colmpennie]

I use to listen to Jordan Peterson all the time. I went a couple of years before I started again.

There was a young man called Noah, 14 years old to thank for reconnecting me to him ❤

I didnt know Noah personally, He was a 14 year old kid from Ireland who went missing last month, Unfortunately he was found dead a week after his disappearance.

He was found with a book,

Jordan Peterson's book,

Shows how the young man was thinking and since then I'm now listening to him everyday now.

Thank you Noah ❤

[sametbiber]

This is so good that i can’t even understand it

[thinker]

It's amazing how JBP can compress complex topics that rub dynamically against each other and integrates between them and delivers them in an interesting and organized way on the spot. This video is about 7 minutes long. If I were to write a summary about the video, or even to try convey the meanings in it I wouldn't be able to compress such complexity.

Thank you WordToTheWise. Your production is absolutely stunning and engaging. Keep up the good work.

[incntrI]

Wow what an explanation. That really made some sense to me, and i have been watching Jordan Peterson for 3 years. Thank you! love to all

[varshasrivastava]

The rituals last long after the reasons have been forgotten!!
Why doesn't my mind coming up with such articulated sentences even when they resonate with me when somebody else says them.

[hilabar]

Depression: Not acting out what lies inside, of which many of us are not even aware. An imbalance between who we really are and what we are doing with our lives.

[reallife]

We need to video a nice family life so people know what it can be like.

[barneylehari]

This is the profound and in-depth articulation beyond human understanding. Thank you JP.

[allieb]

Such a great explanation of where we are at this current point in time. I wish more people would understand what Jordan is explaining about the danger that Nietzsche foresaw and the lie of what people are choosing to believe. It takes a strong mind and character to do that, but if only more people would dig into more sources of information, that would be a start....

[georger]

Thank you very much Jordan Peterson I love listening to your seminars

[alanconlan]

The first step out of the box is the flash realisation of freedom from everything I think I am. It's not an achievement, it's a happening. Directly prior to this, I am frantically trying to re-establish my shattered self. Be easy. Just by opening the fingers and toes, focusing attention on the cool air between, this can trigger the letting go, the total surrender where time and circumstance directs.

[dotology]

This is beautiful. Jordan Peterson is the connector between the known and the unknown channeling the poetry of the rational.

[onfirefoley]

That's why Father God is the only one who knows the day an the hour, we have to be ready. Are you ready? Much love, an thank you for all you do. He helps one think an refine and reflect.

[th-House]

This is such a profound explanation and so well articulated. Thx

[ckundignified]

information doesn't always blossom into knowledge, just as knowledge doesn't always bloom into wisdom...