HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT - Jordan Peterson | Best Life Advice

An important message about being the best you can be and getting what you want from life. From Jordan Peterson to you.
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➤ Summarized Transcript:
"I’m going to manifest myself in the best possible manner in the world. I would like to do that. What would that be?
One of the main reasons that people don’t get what they want is because they don’t actually figure out what it is. And the probability that you’re going to get what would be good for you, let’s say-which would even be better than what you want. You might be wrong about what you want, easily. But maybe you could get what would really be good for you. Well, why don’t you? Well, because you don’t try. You don’t think, ok, here’s what I would like if I could have it. Imagine that you were taking care of yourself like you were someone you actually cared for. And then you thought, ok, I’m caring for this person. I would like for things to go as well for them as possible. What would their life have to be like in order for that to be the case?
People don’t do that. They don’t sit down and think, all right, let’s figure it out. You’ve got a life that’s hard, obviously. Three years from now you can have what you need. You got to be careful about it. You can’t have everything. You can have what would be good for you, but you have to figure out what it is. And then you have to aim at it. Well, my experience with people has been that, if they figure out what it is that would be good for them, and then they aim at it, then they get it.
It’s a strange thing. It’s not that simple. You may formulate an idea about what would be good for you, and then you take 10 steps towards that, and then you find out that your formulation was a bit off, so you have to reformulate your goal. But a huge part of the reason that people fail is because they don’t ever set up the criteria for success. And so, since success is a very narrow line and very unlikely, the probability that you’re going to stumble on it randomly is zero. The proposition is, if you actually want something, you can have it. The question, then, would be, well, what do you mean by actually want? And the answer is that you reorient your life in every possible way to make the probability that that will occur as certain as possible.
That’s a sacrificial idea, right? You don’t get everything. Obviously. But maybe you can have what you need. And maybe all you have to do to get it is ask. But asking isn’t a whim, or today’s wish: you have to be deadly serious about it. If I was going to live properly in the world, and if I was going to set myself up such that being would justify itself in my estimation exactly what is it that I would aim at?
Sit on your bed one day and ask yourself, what stupid things am I doing on a regular basis to screw up my life? But you have to want to know the answer. That’s actually what asking the question means.
Socrates asked himself how it was that he should conduct himself in the world, and then he did that, whatever it was. He didn’t try to force a solution. He didn’t try to force a solution selfishly. What would happen if you consulted yourself about the best possible outcome for you? You might get an answer.
Conceptualize how things could be great-if they were great for you, if you were taking care of yourself-and then work to make that the case for everyone else.
Maybe, you could start with yourself, and think, ok, I’m going to take care of myself as if I have value. What would that look like? And then I’m going to work to extend that courtesy to everyone else. The hypothesis here is that, if you take all of the moral wisdom that mankind has generated over its millennia of struggle, evolved and then manifested in metaphors and stories, and then codified into articulated law, and you pick one principle that dominated all of that, this would be the principle."
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➤ Speaker:
Jordan Peterson
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➤ Source:
"Biblical Series VII" by Jordan B Peterson
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[@conankudo9957]

I usually, really don't like edited videos of Jordan Peterson, but this Editing is spot on. Good Job

[@guassenir]

Great video, folks. Congratulations.

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