This is why you're wasting your life away | Jordan Peterson

This is why you're wasting your life away | Jordan Peterson

HELP US REACH 100K SUBSCRIBERS: https://goo.gl/YSY9MP Brought to you by WordPorn.com Transcript: How many hours a day you waste or how many hours a week you waste. The classic answer is something like four to six hours a day and so if your life isn’t everything it could be, you could ask yourself, well what would happen if you just stopped wasting the opportunities that are in front of you? You’d be who knows how much more efficient, 10 times more efficient, 20 times more efficient. That’s the Pareto distribution. You have no idea how efficient, efficient people get. It’s completely, it’s off the charts. Well and if we all got our act together collectively and stopped making things worse, because that’s another thing people do all the time. Not only do they not do what they should to make things better, they actively attempt to make things worse because they’re spiteful, or resentful, or arrogant, or deceitful, or homicidal, or genocidal, or all of those things all bundled together in an absolutely pathological package. If people stopped really, really trying just to make things worse, we have no idea how much better they would get just because of that. So, there’s this weird dynamic that’s part of the existential system of ideas between human vulnerability, social judgment, both of which are major causes of suffering and a failure of the individuals to adopt the responsibility that they know they should adopt. If you take people, and I’ve told you this, and you expose them voluntarily to things that they are avoiding and are afraid of. That they know they need to overcome in order to meet their goals, their self-defined goals. If you can teach people to stand up in the face of the things they’re afraid of, they get stronger. And you don’t know what the upper-limits to that are, because you might ask yourself, if for 10 years, if you didn’t avoid doing what you knew you needed to do, by your own definitions, right? Within the value structure that you’ve created to the degree that you’ve done that. What would you be like? Well, there are remarkable people who come into the world from time to time and they’re people who do find out over decades long periods, what they could be like if they were who they were. If they said, If they spoke their being forward and they get stronger, and stronger, and stronger and we don’t know the limits to that. We do not know the limits to that. So you could say, well in part perhaps the reason that you’re suffering unbearably can be left at your feet because you’re not everything you could be and you know it. And of course, that’s a terrible thing to admit and it’s a terrible thing to consider, but there’s real promise in it, right? Because it means that perhaps there’s another way that you could look at the world and another way that you could act in the world. What it would reflect back to you would be much better than what it reflects back to you now. So you might say, well, what would happen if you abided by your conscience for five years, or for 10 years? What sort of position might you be in? What sort of family might you have? What sort of relationship might you be able to forget? You can be bloody sure that a relationship that’s forged on the basis of who you actually are, is going to be a lot stronger and more welcome than one that’s forged on the basis of who you aren’t.
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