Part I
putting Jordan Peterson to use in thinking about
your writing for the course
Why
Do People Explore? [3:15 mins.]
Read as If
It Matters
[4:08 mins.] [what you read provides "tools"
for you to use] [end presentation at 1:04 mins.]
Earning Your
Knowledge [6:03
mins.]
Become Disciplined
| Top 10 Rules [33:06 mins.] [presentation on
how we learn, at 4:37 mins., end at 7:05 mins.]
Existentialism
| Authenticity [On Writing Bad Essays]
[1:06:08 mins.] [relevant commentary
begins at 7:55 mins of the video, ends at 10:46 mins.]
Let Your Insufficiencies
Burn Off Like Deadwood [11:21 mins.] [on a student
who can't write, begin at 2:16 mins., end at 4:34 mins.]
Yin-Yang,
Order and Chaos
[10:33 mins.] [the Jordan Peterson story
of the performance of two gymnasts who push themselves to the limit,
begins at 3:51 mins.of the video, ends at 7:21 mins.]
How
to Improve Your Life
[5:10 mins.] [a talk to students, a passionate
view of student life; "learn to think, learn to speak, learn
to read"; the opportunity you have as a student]
footnote
JBP
on 12 Rules for Life
[1:30:32 mins.] [on reading the great psychotherapist/clinicans,
and words of praise] [begin at 3:28 mins., end at 6:56 mins.]
Part II
sorting yourself out | cleaning up your life | and other
advice
Improve Your
Life [9:39 mins.] [face what you fear; we don't
know what the limits are when you "speak the truth forward";
look at the time you waste; "you are not everything you could
be and you know it"]
The Difficulty
of Growing Up in the Modern World [6:00 mins.]
["choose your limitation or let it take you unaware"; "choose
your sacrifice, at least you get to choose it"; you are young
enough to be full of potential; "when you become something the
world opens up to you"; "Jung talked about . . . rediscovering
the child you left behind"; "pick your sacrifice, you don't
get not to make one"] [end presentation at 3:27 mins.]
How to Be Optimistic
[4:31 mins.] [a story about endurance; "who knows how tough you
are"; "pushing yourself against the world"]
How to Start
Fixing Your Life [4:19 mins.] ["here's the
way to clean-up your life": quit doing the things you are doing
you know it is wrong to be doing; "see what happens" ("your
vision will clear up a little bit"); moving away from what is
untrue and that is bad; "clean up your existential space"
("the more you do this, the more you are going to be able to
do things"; "if you are going to clean up the world, start
with cleaning up your existential space"; stop doing things you
not to be inadequate and wrong"; expand your domain of competence;
fix the things you can fix; take the opportunity to "expand your
domain of consciousness"; becomeing strong enough to deal with
the suffering that is ever present in life]
Sort Yourself
Out and Make It Manifest in the World [7:59 mins.]
[suffering (a reality) and the pursuit of meaning; play the best game
you can]
footnote
"The
Moment I Became Serious"
[6:27 mins.]
Part III
key ideas
Why You Must
Have a Purpose [11:07 mins.] [excepted from "Iceland:
12 Rules for Life Tour: Lecture 1," 2018, beginning at 50:58
mins., end at 57:04 mins.] [commentary on Price's Law]
How To Become
Exceptional In Your Career and Life [22:29 mins.]
[the idea of a career & success, knowing that we exist in hierarchies
of success/achievement/competence] [end presentation at 4:06 mins.]
What You Admire
is What You Value [2:27 mins.] [on having an "intrinsic
value structure"]
evolutionary biology
On Evolution
[2:46 mins.]
On How You are
Older Than You Think [1:56 mins.]
perception, frames, and how we deal with complexity
Dragons,
Divine Parents, Heroes and Adversaries: A Complete Cosmology of Being
[1:14:41 mins.] begin presentation at 5:50 mins.,
end at 7:38 mins.] ["it is necessary for you to look at the world
through a limited frame of reference"; you're brain is primarily
a reducing agent (as is much else); "we deal with the complexity
of the world in part by inhabiting a a series of reducing elements"]
[in a simplified view of the world, we are always trying to get somewhere,
that is, from one place to another, point A to point B; motivational
systems are like "isolated one-eyed personalities--cyclops"]
[prior to the class presentation, Peterson has commented on "dealing
with ideas we don't understand well,"; there are some things
we are not smart enough to understand; "talking about the grammar
of belief"; commentary on his reading about belief systems (and
who he was reading); "the grammar of belief is religious in nature"]
Maps of Meaning
13: The Force Within (TVO) [28 mins.] [Peterson's
comments at 6:28 mins. to 10:16 mins, on how the nature of our experience
lies in emotions, motivational states, fantasies, and ideas (and that
these are not so easy to articulate); when you look at the world you
do so from an "emotionally-ridden perspective"; you can't
think without being motivated ("you see the world through a lens,
a narrowing lens")] [at the beginning of the lecture Peterson
notes: "I've been telling you a story that is 40 hours long";
what Peterson presents is "a model of the way the brain processes
the environment" that happens to be "the current state of
neuroscience." Peterson notes that what he is presenting can't
be done by describing a single view, but requires a "circling
around."]
Optional: On
Seeing Life in a Proper Way [5:33 mins.] [frames
make virtually everything around you irrelevant; complexity, from
this perspective means that things that have been irrelevant come
floating in; we strive to keep most things irrelevant]
motivation, goals, emotions
2014
Personality Lecture 16: Extraversion & Neuroticism (Biology & Traits)
[1:44:48 mins.] ["motivation sets goals . . .
tune your perceptions"; "emotions track goals"; a tour
of brain circuitry (psycho-biology of behavior) (emotion and biology)]
[begin presentation at 1:45 mins., end at 12:32 mins.]
optional: No
Goal, No Positive Emotion
[4:10 mins.] [on having goals; playing games ("there
is a set of playable games")]
stories
Dragons,
Divine Parents, Heroes and Adversaries: A Complete Cosmology of Being
[1:14:41 mins.] [presentation begins at 21:16 mins.,
ends at 22:20 mins,]
tools & obstacles
Dragons,
Divine Parents, Heroes and Adversaries: A Complete Cosmology of Being
[1:14:41 mins.] [presentation begins at 21:53 mins.,
ends at 31:55 mins,] [Peterson's discussion of tools and obstacles
leads to a discussion of the unknown, and order and chaos]
big 5 personality traits
Big 5 Personality
Traits [6:46 mins.] [begin presentation at 2:55
mins.] [Peterson, drawing on social psychology research on differences
between men and women moves into political controversy territory]
Difference Between
Wisdom and IQ? [7:13 mins.] [end presentation
at 1:41 mins.]
Part IV
complexity and its tributaries
"We can only occupy one place at a time. Further,
the place that we occupy is shaped by the specific peculiarities,
constraints and biases of our particular cultures. We are products
of the social processes that shaped us, products of our time. Finally,
we are characterized by profound intrinsic limitations on our perceptual
and cognitive processing power. We can only make sense of a fraction
of the information that constantly presents itself to us. The stability
of the sense that we make is therefore fragile. Our models of experience
are limited, incomplete, and chronically prone to file. Our essential
existential problem can thus be more accurately conceptualized as
vulnerability to complexity . . . .
* * * *
We need to determine exactly what it means to be exposed,
without defence, to the underlying complexity of the world.
* * * *
[H]ow can we achieve our intrinsically determined
ends in an endlessly complex environment?"
--Jordan B. Peterson & Joseph L. Flanders, Complexity Management
Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict,
38 Cortext Forum 429, 431, 432, 436 (2002)
complexity
The Pinnacle
of Complexity [8:20 mins.] [this video is an
excerpt from Peterson's introductory lecture in his Personality
and Its Transformation course] [a fundamental notion: we are complex;
our ability to understand ourselves is low; science may not be all
that good in concepualing the ideal; "it would be worthwhile
if you approached this course like you were an engineer of the spirit";
a course in "applied wisdom"] [end video at 5:17 mins.]
Ways
of Dealing with the Complexity of the World [6:49
mins.] [you have a built-in interpretative system] [reference to
Jack Panksepp] [ you live inside a story; "we have evolved
story-like structures to understand the world" -- 1:41 mins.]
["we have hemispheric specialization to deal with the known
and unknown, order and chaos] ["we live in stories"; you
need to understand some things about stories; one kind of story
you need to know something about is mythology]
keeping most of the world irrelevant
Tools
for Seeing Life Properly [5:34 mins.] [frames
make virtually everything around you irrelevant; complexity, from
this perspective means that things that have been irrelevant come
floating in; we strive to keep most things irrelevant]
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