Jordan Peterson - How to Have a Dialogue With Your Conscience

original source: • Q & A 2018 03 March
Question: I've been trying to listen to my conscience but I can't tell the difference between fear, willful blindness or genuine conscience.
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[@joseguerrero5649]

One JP video a day keeps the malevolence away.

[@_basedgeo2641]

Amen

[@_basedgeo2641]

-An atheist

[@GUEST-oz7kn]

That's hilarious, and true.

[@AlanSilva-bu1kp]

Cê é brasileiro, né?

[@xerrts7934]

😂😂

[@lilgoku461]

I'm a simple person. I see Jordan Peterson smile in the thumbnail and I click.

[@tharunmalayil2332]

I sea boobs i click

[@lachlanoneil8938]

Yes you are simple ...

[@hiddensaint3251]

L A I L A grab a cup of drink and sit back take notes. Very simple indeed

[@1amilliman]

Me, too.

[@joeymalope]

😂😂😂😂

[@mieungdeairldeimauseu754]

Jordan Bearderson

[@PC.NickRowan]

Pray this comment gets pinned

[@AmalAmal-cx1ev]

Is it just me ? I really cannot have enough with what he has to say

[@hiddensaint3251]

Amal Amy deff not just u

[@lanesmith1465]

Totally not just you.

[@thisfooliscool]

I'm following him for 2 years and still I'm awestruck by him. He is no less than a god. I made a video representing how he helped me..

[@niteip187]

He speaks the truth, it's addictive in a world of cowards and lies

[@HarmanContinental]

Notes: If you think you should do something and your not doing it because your afraid, then you should do it anyways so you can find out if it’s fear that’s stopping you. Many systems guide you. Motivational systems, Intuition, physical senses. You program these systems with content. They are fed with your thoughts. If you are honest with yourself it will program well. If you lie to yourself, the system will program itself poorly because it has false information. Chance to develop new relationship. You must want to sort out your issues, or your headed to your personal hell. Imagine your life’s personal heaven as a goal to pull you, and hell as a motivation pushing you. Collaborative empiricism: Agrophobic person, walk half way to the door and go back. Take a step, return, analyze, adjust, repeat. It’s like a try and see method. Dialogue between conscious and unconsciousness ( your biological platform) You’re always in dialogue with yourself. Be honest with yourself

[@coldflame999]

Thank you🙏🏼

[@SV42165]

Thank you man

[@mohammedidriss9131]

Unless it’s suicide .

[@jemd5766]

​@@mohammedidriss9131 😢

[@rdf5356]

Looks like a badass with a bit of stubble

[@AHunDread]

In 12 Rules for Life's introduction he is presented as a cowboy. Howdy, bucko.

[@jokintjboy]

RD F he could compete with the walking dead’s “neegan” with that beardensom.

[@NRG56]

This guys son is so damn lucky

[@Jenk2912]

EZ Duzit both his children are. Anyone that has a parents that pays attention, isn’t lazy and will challenge you to grow etc is lucky.

[@crinawma314]

Legend says Jordan had their Leviathan served hot and spicy while they're Youngblood

[@jasonfontaine7072]

That thumbnail repressed my sadness for an hour

[@berastis4431]

Why are you sad?

[@georgethakur]

You didn't reply, Jason, come on

[@jazerasor1455]

Jason!

[@hibaid1424]

Jason are u ok?

[@prosaic.7944]

JASON TALK TO US! JASON! JASOOOOOOONNNN!

[@ArkDesignHD]

"We're always in dialogue with something" = Hegel's philosophy

[@Julian-cv2ve]

I encourage stopping the video when you feel a thought pop into your mind about what he is talking about, really helped me figure out how I can apply his advice to myself

[@thisfooliscool]

I guess he meant start by not lying. I made a video about how he helped me recognise my conscience..

[@crustyfapkin4349]

@@thisfooliscool how did he help you “recognize” your conscience? Whenever I try to think about my conscience or any mental type of stuff its like a big confusing cloud

[@iwantyou8990]

It's interesting that it is often easier to have a dialogue with other people than oneself. Collaborative empiricism appears to begin in conversation with other people you can trust, and gradually becomes a self-generated process. You use other people to bounce your conscious off of, before you converse with it yourself.

[@silverhawkroman]

@@stevehenry6010 maybe that could cause an echo chamber tho... Or perhaps you won't come up with something new that you haven't thought of yet.

[@davidbaigorria5847]

@@silverhawkroman echo chamber =/= having thoughts that can be dangerous and YET useful. Maybe he doesn't have the people he can trust his ideas, because of their sharp content, and they get away from him because of that. TLDR: Better alone than with bad company!

[@hi_1833]

It’s interesting what you say about conscience developing by speaking with other people. Where did you get this idea from? I mean, because you seem to be relating this idea to collaborative empiricism. Peterson doesn’t mention that exactly at least in this video I believe, or am I missing something? I’d like to dig a bit more into it.

[@BitesizedPhilosophy]

This is from yesterday's Q&A (full link in the description) and this question stood out to me. I think this answer is worth listening and revisting multiple times, you can really tell that Dr. Peterson was in his intellectual comfort zone (in a good way) answering this one. Forgive me the sometimes slightly silly thumbnails, but I can't help myself having a little fun with them.

[@daccidaccidentro]

there's a mistake in the title, it's supposed to be spelled *dialogue*

[@di3486]

Please, keep them coming. Those thumbnails are everything😂😂😂

[@perrovazquezrascon]

How does one go about sending a question for Dr. Peterson? Do we have to send an e-mail or what's the deal?

[@BitesizedPhilosophy]

+daccidaccidentro Thanks for pointing that out, I just corrected the spelling mistake thanks to you. I still have some trouble with the English language.

[@lostkiddie]

Rene Vazquez, through Patreon

[@xthugniifcent_9695]

I worked at a packing house job over the summer and I didnt have much to do but to think abstract ideas and thoughts you could call it meditating for a couple of hours. It was a really scary thing. My level of consciousness was so high I was having visions of the future seeing different lighting and reading people's energies it was kind of a spiritual awakening or 3rd eye awaking I suppose but at the same time I felt emotionless and it was really hurting my relationships bc I was so absent I didnt feel like myself. I was questioning lots of things about the universe like are we just here to consume have we lived this life before are we all the same are we all different. Is everything I am just gifts and experiences and weakness I've inherited from my ancestors or past lives is that why we have evolved. I also felt as if I would continue to live this life in a different life until the end of time until I found my true purpose in life. I was starting to think I was schizophrenic tbh and while in the tub today yeah the tub lmao I decided I wasnt emotionless I was just aimless. This is bc i had been at that stupid job for too long too isolated and too much time to have my mind wander off.

[@Masterslosey]

Is it me or does he look like Rick Grimes in a way?

[@hanneswurstbrot6902]

but way more stable in mind :D

[@berastis4431]

Rick Grimes WAS NEVER that smart

[@cubiekill5454]

FUCKING HELL I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

[@cubiekill5454]

@@berastis4431 Rick Grimes is a fucking legend nonetheless

[@tiredofit1968]

Good call. Too bad Rick wasn't this smart, although he was smart. The thing Rick has that JP doesn't is that manly thing. What I mean is you know everything by seeing the very different way in which both gentlemen sit.

[@kimjongduck5335]

The chat was crazy during the livestream!

[@kimjongduck5335]

Absolutely hilarious way! The youtube livechat was all spammed with lobster emotes and messages of affection to the prof (and lots of comments about his beard)

[@johncarton3023]

straight gold.

[@fuckThisComputerOoO]

THIS is the one thing i needed to hear right now! And probably tomorrow again

[@vignitres]

That smile

[@brooklynrobotworks9866]

Thank you Jordan.

[@BrotherTree1]

I stood up and almost applauded like a fool at the end.

[@6lu5ky86]

I've had agoraphobia and had a hard time even going to the grocery store. Now I'm less apprehensive because I just had to expose myself. Sometimes I still need to just go out and walk down every single aisle of the grocery store so I can remind myself that nothing bad is going to happen.

[@ConnorDRyan]

Christopher Merritt keep at it bro. It’s good to hear you’re making progress

[@robhulson]

Courage is knowing you’re afraid of something and doing it any way. Keep it up, Christopher.

[@kevinc721]

Christopher Merritt I feel your pain man. I’ve been dealing with agoraphobia for a few months now along with a severe panic disorder and it sucks.

[@ExtremeGSE]

You got it brosky

[@silverhawkroman]

@@kevinc721 why not think the other way around? Unless something hurts me I'm just gonna live my life like I want. Kinda like someone who's afraid of the law while they're not violating any. The moment the cop comes up to you and tells you to stop you can confirm there's something bad you've made. Until then, live free!!

[@funkthedoc5963]

Mr Peterson just cured my fear of hearing voices and that one guy in my Head who is able to talk to me in my head while I’m thinking

[@danusminimus9557]

Great beard, love it!

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

One tricky thing I have noticed with trying to listen more to your conscience is that, and I believe it tends to happen more when you know you're doing something wrong, your working mind will simultaneously try to undermine that unconscious portion of you that gives you that gut instinct. Part of trying to become much more aware of yourself and your actions is vested in understanding that the unconscious part of yourself, doing both right and wrong, is constantly moving away from your conscious mind. Becoming more aware of yourself is always a tentative thing, and I believe it constantly needs to be updated. Similar to a reality check in some ways. If it is not updated, by means of introspection or external voices, then your conscious mind will try to sabotage the voice in your head that tells you you are doing something wrong just so that it believes it is right. Very nasty trick the brain plays on itself. Although I'm not sure if other people might relate to this or not, I've never asked, and it isn't exactly an easy thing to verbalize into a question.

[@ankushchoubeymusic]

This is a good trick 😮

[@dejanmarkovic3040]

Well, this is what psyhologists mean by pathology. They also refer to it as maladaptive reasoning. I could go on with the nomenclature. The way I see it, taking into account what modest knowledge of neuroscience I've accrued watching Huberman, we have instincts and needs...if they are not met in development, we tend to create our own ways of meeting those needs. The fact that a kid came up with a way of meeting their need already renders it...just wrong. Because wtf does a kid know? So then once that's ingrained, we tend to hold onto that more than to anything else we learn in life, because ....well, we're still here, which means the kid's coping mechanism has ''worked''...but it hasn't. It's worked several times short-term but has fked us up longterm. It's just that that unconscious part of us, that instinctual part of our brain, so the brain stem and the limbic system, are much more powerful than our frontal lobe, our neocortex. YOu might argue that that's not the case with many functional, intelligent people, but I'd say they've just been lucky in terms of 1.genetics 2. upbringing (being instilled working habits) and 3. love....jsut fkn love. Once you feel loved, you're kinda satiated as a human...yeah, you might be hungry, tired and need to take a pizz...those needs are far more easily met than connection. Without connection, we feel vulnerable and like our survival is geoperdized, which it is...just look at the people who overdose or are driven to su1c1d3 by depression. Ok, so what do we do? Well, we learn healthier ways to use our brain by....listening to Peterson, reading about psychology, neuroscience, the v.t.a., nucleus accumbens, the hypothalamus, the epyphisis, basal ganglia, gaba receptors, idfk, all of that...and then once you realize that not only is your situation not unique, but there's a name for that because it's that fkn ubiquitous, you start to look at it as....idk, a flat tire...you're not the only one with a flat tire...that's why your car has a spare wheel and...that thing you use to lift the car....it's happened before and there's a solution. Of course, you could just try and blow up the tire, instead of taking care of the puncture..and that might get you another 50km...but eventually it will deflate if you don't take care of the root problem - the fkn puncture in the inner tire. I'm not gonna lie, I'm happy with that analogy. :)

[@Luna99199]

very enlightening

[@MikkoB89]

He makes sense but I very typically zone out when he’s talking and he doesn’t hold my attention well. His writing puts me to sleep. However for some reason, I keep going back to his stuff.

[@baussier134]

It's very high quality content, but also pretty dense, so the mind get tired easily with Dr. Peterson lessons

[@archlich4489]

I watch some videos at 125% speed. That helps. You'd really have to be on the ball to do it with Peterson though.

[@thisfooliscool]

I feel his every sentence is so dense and precise that one can not listen to him casually. One must dedicate his full attention. I made a video about how he helped me so I can make that wisdom mine, it's not nice to be possessed by ideologies.

[@polowow97]

Your unconscious is listening even if you aren't! Hehe

[@mbfun9298]

His way of speaking requires active attention and a good rich vocabulary since he uses most academic speak most of the time, which can be very effective at packing a lot of information in very little words. Plus he tends to be very tangential (?) meaning he tends to branch out when he speaks because he is actively exploring rather than just parroting when he lectures. Re-listening his lectures helps allot and one can actually benefit from it quite since over the time as one learns new words and knows what he will speak about, many things he says really make sense. I had this experience as well with Alan Watts ( Alan is being eloquent while using a very simple wordset, mark of a person that has really mastered what he knows). The problem with very inteligent person like Jordan Peterson is that his skill in speaking plainly and getting the point across is not really good ( though this might be just because of the shear data packed into the things he is saying) since I feel that most of his work while huge is in his mind not nearly complete. On the other hand the benefit here is that it forces your mind to rethink most common stuff in a new light, at least for me this is one of the main benefits of reading 12 rules for life. What he says is common knowledge but the way he says it and the way he reintroduces the concepts is Nobel Prize worthy as far as I'm concenred.

[@ikawinner960]

Thank you Mr. Peterson,

[@davidthomspson9771]

whoa... thanks

[@danieljonespt2876]

Jesus... That was immense.

[@mainechanco4372]

Exactly! Slow process at first. It gets faster as you get used to it

[@micheleellis4074]

Let your conscience be your guide

[@Ot-ej5gi]

This is not what he said. He said your conscience is not unerring. You and your conscience mature as you go while constantly having a dialogue with it as you both grow. You learn from your mistakes and that helps to inform the conscience. It's not that simple.

[@robmcg9538]

Think it was a Pinocchio quote to be fair

[@mwaikul]

Listening to Dr Peterson has helped me more then listening to any paid therapist

[@DNA350ppm]

Important Q and good A! One practical tip for some moral conundrums: if you have some people in your life that you really wish all the best, then in your mind's eye put them in the difficult situation assuming the part of all involved roles, one after the other. It's easy when it's about dishonesty, cheating, betraying - which you know you shouldn't accept in yourself or others, so don't. But telling an inconvenient truth, accepting a promotion that your best friend wants, leaving a person behind that is dependent on you and yet has a negative influence on your life, because of envy. These are much trickier dilemmas. Consider the values you would like to be attached to your character. What is more important to you: being reliable or agreeable? More honest/outspoken or polite? Counting more on yourself or leaning on others? Try to always and in advance show your true values - so people will be forwarned. They will not then expect you to always be agreeable, polite or dependent, if you in all interactions, small or big matters, show what and who you are. Adapt JBP's advice about the agoraphobia to your communication skills - take small steps first, like saying "No, thanks for asking, but no." or "I need time to think that over." or "I feel torn between your needs and my interest, so I am going to get some councelling on this." or "Fair enough, but nevertheless I will think my conditions over first." Be prepared for conflict and controversy in family, at work, in relationships - and be prepared that there always are people who are ready to take advantage of you. And remember, also nice and kind people have their limits.

[@HellsMaw]

6:58 till the end, with speed set at 0.5 This is exactly how I imagine JP would be like if he smoked a fat joint

[@ILikeFeelingElectric]

Hells Maw 😂🤣😂🤣

[@zracklfr1334]

haha

[@DonutVideos]

jesus dude, this was funny

[@TheRABIDdude]

Hahahahahahaha I ADORE this!!! Well spotted my friend X'D

[@ahmedabbasi5691]

I don't think I've ever heard my conscience speak. It seems to me to be more like a feeling, so if I'm doing something I shouldn't be doing it's just a strong negative feeling in my heart. I don't know how to have a dialogue with feelings. My inner voice doesn't seem to be synonymous to my conscience, because my inner voice seems just as flawed as I am. It's me. It doesn't aim for the highest possible good. It doesn't tell me what not to do.

[@AnnaLVajda]

I'm an honest person so my conscience doesn't bother me and people without conscience are not bothered when they do wrong either so regardless of if you are good or not bad things can still happen to you a conscience only protects you from committing wrongs not suffering because of them.

[@jakedee4117]

In 2001 A Space Odyssey the A.I. HAL went mad because the programmers forced it to lie

[@timmonahkanam8600]

best advice ever

[@thisfooliscool]

Totally

[@azian0002]

thank you btw

[@ICHI_BAN]

This the best on to me cuz it resonates

[@bilalahsan678]

“Consult your soul, consult your heart, O Wabisah. Righteousness is what reassures your soul and your heart, and sin is what wavers in your soul and puts tension in your chest, even if people approve it in their judgments again and again.” - Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h

[@davidthomspson9771]

Heavy ***t here! EXACTLY what i need to hear.

[@IvanBroes]

Why does one have to be in dialogue with one's consciousness, and I can see Dr. Peterson's point. Yet, I'm visionary (in the sense that this all happens in my unconscious mind,) I set goals, and it is like this/these goal/s get locked into automatic drive. And everything comes to mind, like driving through a street, a sequence of events in the form of moving images.

[@francismausley7239]

Many forces try to invade our conscience... "if interrogation of conscience, which is one of the private possessions of the heart and the soul, take place in this world, what further recompense remains for man in the court of divine justice…" - Abdu’l-Baha, Baha'i Faith

[@flintcooper9314]

Instructions Unclear, Conscience apparently wants cheese sauce

[@SwarfCrawler]

What about stopping it? I can't stop the Dialog. No matter how hard I try my mind and thoughts are racing 24/7 and It's a living hell.

[@milky_dromeda]

Stopping it is impossible.

[@Instransigent]

Try mindfulness meditation

[@Luciano3415]

Putin The harder you try to not think about something, the more you are going to think about it- try not thinking about a white elephant after I told you so. Alan watts said that trying to stop your thoughts on purpose is like trying to calm the waves with an iron

[@vilhelmkron7455]

Putin meditate daily

[@skywalkerneoblade]

Drinking wine helps for me but I know Peterson would not be happy with my answer.

[@zanmangrhupi]

If you think you should do sth, but not want to do because you are afraid of it, then you should do it. You can realize it by keep telling the truth, and not telling lies. Your conscience is not omnipresent. You have to keep figuring out the right path with your conscience. First step is to straightening your mind up. Do you really want to get things better, and aim the highest good? If the answer is yes, you can let your conscience guide you. As you go through numerous experiments with your conscience, you and your conscience gets wiser and well-equipped for the world. You can ask yourself. ‘Did what I want to have happened actually happened as a consequence of ‘an experiment’?’

[@TheLEGOZora]

He's not reading a question at the start. That's him asking his own conscience.

[@shanemcinally7092]

I just came back to this video for the second time. Months ago I experienced an event that triggered my downfall (anxiety -> reverting back to old ways -> more anxiety -> reverting even further back), Oddly enough during this pandemic I've recovered, the generous payments of my government have helped, I used them to change my situation and from the small action of renting a room I've steered my whole life in a more positive direction. What happened was I listened to my conscious, I felt conflicting thoughts at first but it didn't take long for me to act, now I'm here realizing how much of a useless man I am and how much I want to grow the hell up and be a useful force in this world.

[@melanoma7220]

Now I'm wondering if it's possible for one's conscience to become corrupted.

[@shayanibrahim4127]

it can easily be corrupted.

[@nineseven62]

he actually has talked about it and one instance is on a youtube video.

[@natalieboult4726]

Yes it can be silenced with ignorance arrogance and physical distractions

[@gregtheflyingwhale6480]

What if my subconscious tells me that whatever I am doing is boring and thus not worth trying? I have been fooled by myself like this way too many times.

[@Lightnings]

Here he was at his best.

[@spikeep6141]

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

[@baussier134]

The Man in the High Castle?

[@philwells2920]

Holy shit, just had an oddly tangented realization that only leads to more questions (they always do...): So as I was listening I took a step back and thought about how nice it is that Jordan is so willing to sit down and spend time guiding this kid. Then I associated that with another clip of Jordan talking about how parents have been increasingly failing/neglecting to do this sort of thing with their children for the past 50 years (100? Can't remember). Then I associated that with increasing population, Pareto distributions, and the fact that a Pareto distribution manifests itself in many ways, many of which aren't obvious. And then I wondered, is this increasing lack of quality parental guidance just another manifestation of a Pareto distribution? Is it just another struggle/failure to add to the list of struggles/failures of the 99% (this parenthesis doesn't matter--feel free to skip unless curious: actually, 99% is a specific linear figure, and the essential Pareto distribution is an exponential function, so "remainder after subtracting the square root of the total" would be more fitting, but weirder to read I guess)? And then, would it not be better to focus on overpopulation than to focus on bad parenting? I know Jordan is not a fan of the overpopulation concern, but dang, something's gotta give with this crazy Pareto distribution we're in. Like can we split into smaller groups or something? Heck even then those groups would adhere to a Pareto distribution as well.... Any ideas? Please don't say WWIII lol.

[@TUNG3R]

I know Jordan is a very busy person but how do I submit a question like this that has a chance of him actually seeing it. Twitter?

[@zeroethsort1071]

Through Patreon, I believe. I'm guessing you need to be a patron, but I'm not sure of the specifics beyond that.

[@tedsims6221]

You'd be surprised he answered my buddies email the other day.

[@thisfooliscool]

He used to take questions on patreon but I think he left that platform..

[@ikawinner960]

I am going make some test to check my health, every year in the first month, so tomorrow, and next week.

[@richardbedford6657]

I had a truth to tell once when I was 19, I wanted to be a girl even though I am male. It was my subconscious anima suppressed and locked in solitary confinement. I was her advocate and I spoke to her about the danger in letting her out in my conscious world.

[@jordan24303]

Bloody god Jordan Peterson

[@colinwhalan9031]

He speaks of consoiusness like if he feeds it then it will get smarter when in fact he is unconsoius to his own conscious mind of the Devine intelligence of his creative mind and yes our ego should use his minds emotions to see right and wrong but that's a given to if you have enough faith you can talk to Ur self as it is at Ur command of your authority to take your place as the director of your choice to freewill your true loves emotions with the truth comes great responsibility and is not to be half hearted some truths are hard on the hearts emotions and that's why the ego needs to be carful how we approach a truth of love that is very sensitive and unknown to us it comes threw with the nature of its truth and we must be humbled to our most sincere emotions of realisation of what we might be descovering inside our feelings there are emotions that go with them hand in hand and when we find out by how we think we create then something falls in to place that explains everything and all is you and all is known when our masculine Marrys our feminine and sets our souls love free to use at will in good will to others and we love how we roll then . Cause life could use a truth and if it's the truth of all truths then it's our freewill to fall in love and claim our birth rights as we are not governed by evil and man one is not above us nor below and the truth knows it's laws of its nature are all the laws one needs to live and create life on earth with no dark forces in power spreading fear and chaos for personal gain that's not who we are only in the dark Age do they dare stand over the truth of mankind and dominate us with fear they are the ones who fear our truth not us we stand in our truth with love and the truth speaks for it's self do we not have our faith in our hearts intuition . Maybe we should feel our hearts love and let it go and relax and smile cause angels do not fear those below us and our ego not protected by his truth and his love and his faith he holds for his love then in doubts and fears questioning our own intuitions emotions we fall from grace and the fear factor they are relentless but they have no authority over our emotions our our minds chemicals they are to one unto our authority with love we speak our mind and our truth means something for life to who ever we have something to say for the better and that comes naturally we love to love and now there is a truth to all truths cause we know our self better than we could of ever imagined on our own but hey I'm not educated or read a book or went to any group I struggled in life as intuitive by nature I questioned the lesbian in the man's body cause I couldn't deny my emotions and they were feminine so of course I questioned but I love women . Suicide everyday for 40 odd yrs and a sad lonley heart full of love for life and others but none for me I was the ADHD uncontrollable I had a mind that was free and full of adventure bullies were a problem in life some just don't like ya lol. I traveled from 14 till 40 married two European women failed both had kids failed love it just hurt to much to love well I had no faith in love so could hope for it but never have it and only true love created brings it to life that's a crazy mental blockage that is cruel cause mental health is killing our teenagers and self harm is not a sound healthy mind of love in truth that's hurting love and if our system is that cruel then wars were for nothing but fear and death energy of emotions creating it for there own personal gain and we are the choosen ones but we need to make our self aware of that truth inorder to have and to hold till death do we part and live happy ever after amen to the truth of our God given rights to our love of our life . And I worked all that out on my own freewill threw suffering it .

[@MrJDOaktown]

Your conscience is guiding you towards something. Did what I want to have happen occur as an outcome? Did what I want to have happen, happen as a consequence of my framework of my interpretation and my action?

[@ciaran6309]

Where is this Guy gone

[@davidthomspson9771]

Wholly fricken moly

[@azian0002]

4:07 Mr. Peterson maybe hope(love) to sort them out I hope

[@SketchybrainD]

A comedian said when he was a teenager he had a therapist say there was two versions of him. One was a genuinely decent guy that wanted to be better and the other was a gorilla determined to beat the hell out of the first guy any chance he got

[@ikawinner960]

I am not lying, I don’t know what can come, but I am pretending to any stape that can Risk me.

[@kostaslemis9600]

nice smile

[@lschwaier]

Talk to that beautiful girl, anxiety kicks in, window closes.. regret not talking to her... FEAR

[@thisfooliscool]

Make your first video, anxiety kicks in, window closes regret not uploading it.. fear But today after 2 months I defeated this fear

[@joaquinsanchez3722]

3:50

[@hoopschoop3339]

I'm stuck in a very big decision, whether to marry the girl im with or not...and I cant seem to figure out what to do. God help me. Im trying to find some way for my subconscious to tell me what I deep down suspect I should do.

[@richardbrent5554]

Can someone help me get my letter to Jordann? I really wish to thank him.

[@markjacksonturner6462]

Peter Fonda/Jimmy Stewart voice at a Sam Elliott rate of delivery.

[@tiredofit1968]

I do hear the jimmy Stewart for...damn it, now that's all I'm gonna hear when I listen to JP.

[@Plutomaniaa]

Me: Wait what if this is a JP clone JP: ....*MENTIONS PINOCCHIO*.... Me: Definitely JP.

[@alexeykaplin5979]

in appearance, Dr Peterson reminds me of Daniel Day lewis and Jeremy Irons, super hot

[@spikeep6141]

The source material of Disney’s Pinocchio is significantly darker and far less invested in the redemptive and redeeming influence of twee blonde blue guardian angels. Significantly, the reason WHY The Cricket tirelessly follows after the nasty, spiteful little puppet man is because Pinocchio objects to his chirping, cheery, holier than thou tone (plus, he keeps looking at him funny, or something...”.), takes exception to the bug on their first meeting each other, and so lobs a hammer at the cricket from across the room, ENRAGED and in fact, in so-doing *Murders Him....* And so the unquiet spirit of the squished cricket proceeds to *HAUNT* Pinocchio’s every waking moment, and invade his every dream, like Banquo’s Ghost, shaking his gory segmented limbs at him, exactly as with classic PTSD. The author professed to harbour an intense dislike of children - Bad Little Boys, in particular. And it was his sworn aim to punish and *horrify* Them....

[@thisfooliscool]

They are so many voices inside my head but non of them are bold, clear, convincing or real enough so I can trust and it is all because I lied?

[@veronicalopes8948]

What your asking me to do ? I know about me i avoid why ? You give me what i found my lover and husband i can't have this relationship with others but i don't know about me ? How i get into this kind of I don't do things i have my conscious i want you in existence that's all of you and all of me

[@RudG10]

oof i didnt understand this one....can someone give a brief explanation to the answer??

[@peteranon8455]

You have a conscience. It starts out dumb. You teach it. It helps you do what you teach it. Teach it right.

[@RudG10]

@@peteranon8455 how though

[@soaperano5286]

@@RudG10 What I was asking in this question is, for the past couple of month I have been trying to listen to the voice in my head(sometimes it's a gut feeling)that tells me if what I'm doing ia right or wrong. However the more I focused on it(by taking a step back before acting or writing about it later) I found out that there are more than one factor pushing my actions beside what you might I call conscience. So I asked how I might be able to differentiate between them. He began by answering part of my question and then took a step back and recalculated the question and went on and explained it way better than what I imagined. At the beginning he explained if I'm uncertain about it being fear or consciousness I should do it anyway and after it with hindsight see which was it and further my understanding of my consciousness. After that he went on to explain how you might complicate the process by not telling the truth. Because in your every day life you make mistakes and the way to grow out of those mistakes is by making changes to your behaviour towards your environment. However if you lie to yourself or others what you're doing is explaining the reality of what happened falsely which means when the same situation repeat itself in the future you'll make the same or a slightly different mistake which will strengthen the faulty way of analysing the world. I hope this explains it.

[@markmark6348]

I love you sir. No homo

[@hesback3150]

At 00:29 he answers the question. FEAR 😂

[@mr.beelzebub888]

" "we are always in dialog we are always in dialog, with everything" " I'm high and this sentences made lots of sense

[@ST-yc7uj]

Imagine living in a third world country ridden with conflicts ,either with no stable government or corrupted police forces... ...telling the truth is like signing a death penalty for yourself..because anything you do to earn a living must be kept a secret, sometimes even to your own family members. It's such a privilege to be able to speak openly and truthfully..a first-world-country's problem indeed.

[@EckerKyle]

Is he lit in this video? Never looked at him and thought he was high before lol

[@WrightlyDivided]

Pinocchio gets so much clout from his viewers lol

[@vu3atg835]

6:44 wait what if the answer is like...no

[@Viriyascybin]

Jordan Peterson, "Hello Dr. Peterson, I have been trying to listen to my conscience, but I can't tell the difference between fear, willful blindness or genuine conscience." If you think that you should do something, and you think the reason why you might not be doing it, is because you're afraid. Then you should do it. So that way you can find out if It's fear (Resistance). story (Pinnochio has Jimmity Cricket as his conscience. But it's an inexperienced and dogmatic conscience to begin with. It's not like the conscience is an unerring guide, It's like a partner in discovery.) "Your conscience is a bit inexperienced to begin with. As you move forward in your life, and you consult your conscience and you listen to it then, it gets smarter and so do you. But there's a (coda?) there, and this is why I've suggested, part of the reason why I've suggested so frequently in my lectures and my book, that people try not to lie. See, there are many systems, you have many systems within let's say, that guide you. One of those is your capacity for rational though, and then you have a variety of emotional systems, and motivational systems and internal dramas and intuitions and bodily sensations and senses. Lots of system that guide you. And many of them operate, you might say, unconsciously, autonomously, instinctively, implicitly all of that. Nonetheless you program them, you feed them content let's say. Just like you feed your body nourishment, you feed them content. And a lot of the content you feed them, pertains directly to your voluntary thought and speech and actions, and if you pathologize those by lying. So if you say things that you know not to be true, or you don't say things that you know to be true, when you need to, which is more common. And if you act in ways that you consider reprehensible, then you pathologize all of those autonomous systems that guide you. It's like you're programming them badly, you're building an AI system inside yourself. Really, and in some sense that is what you are doing .. It's very bad training data, and so the output it produces won't guide you properly. And so, you don't want to pathologize your guidance systems. It's a really bad idea. So that's why you have to not lie, and you have to say what you have to say, and you have it clearly as well and you have to learn how to do that .. So that's one of the ways of getting your conscience straightened out. Then, you have to have a dialogue with your conscience, and you might ask, "Should I do this, or should I not do this?". Maybe you have a chance to develop a new relationship. And you're excited about it, and apprehensive about it, and afraid of it, and you don't know how to sort out all those feelings. The first thing is, you really have to want to sort them out, that's why you have to orient yourself to something that is a genuine up, you know, the star above the horizon, you have to really want things to be straight and you have thought that through, and you have to know what it means, for things not to be straight, and really what it means is that you're headed for hell in one way or another. And if you understand that, maybe it's enough to scare you straight, you've really got to think that through. Then you've got to think about how much better it would be, if you aimed up. And that really has to kind of permeate your whole being. And so then, you're oriented that way, you're oriented up and you're deciding that It's okay to try to tell the truth. And then you can start to rely on this dialogue with your conscience. But both of you have to learn, and you're going to make mistakes along the way. And you know, that's okay you can say well I'm going to try this without being certain that it's right. You can even say, I am going to say this without being certain that it's correct. That's what you do if it's a hypothesis, you both have at it, and see if it's an idea worth keeping. So that's collaborative empiricism, you're running little experiments. Your conscience is guiding you towards something, you take a tentative step towards that direction, and then you check and see you know. Did what I wanted to have happened, occur as an outcome? That's the crucial question. Did what I want to have happened, happen as a consequence of my framework of interpretation and my action? If the answer is yes, then I have not invalidated it. So you have a dialogue with your conscience that never ends. And hopefully it gets wiser, and you get wiser. And that's the dialogue that Jung talked about between the conscious and the unconscious. Between your fantasy life say, the life that's sort of underneath you as a conscious being, the life that's part of your biological platform that somehow miraculously gives rise to your consciousness. You have a dialogue with that. We're always in dialogue, we're always in dialogue with everything. So, pursue that.

[@painted_in_thick]

Like a pray?!

[@jameslincs]

This is what went wrong with Hal in 2001 a space odyssey. Wow!

[@crowkangi]

he look fine as hell right here. this is when he peaked.

[@hiddensaint3251]

Happy Independence Day from America everyone

[@johnkennedy6862]

How to have a dialogue with your conscience? Take iboga.

[@tommytwomommy]

I’m a conscious-type person

[@Welcometothewild]

was this before Kermit went crazy

[@Joel-py1qn]

Pordan Jeterson

[@justinchamberlain3443]

2:01 hes decribing how to be guided

[@imjustsayingtho1464]

That fucking thumbnail

[@chickenshieee]

I safely believe the internet acceptance for Jordan has matured enough. We can at last start Chuck Norris jokes for our beloved JBP owning everyone and everything..! Your lazy ass, your consciousness, his consciousness, SJWs, Cathy Newman... Who’s first?

[@selihter]

So, there's me and Ms. Conciousness lol. Damn I've been lying to myself and Ms. Conciousness all these years👽

[@makaniistorm8664]

You ARE consciousness.

[@selihter]

@@makaniistorm8664 how simple is it?

[@makaniistorm8664]

@@selihter Oof. Fuck. Well I had the problem with over complicated for a while so don't do that. Basically it's you being aware that your body and mind is there also. You're not actually your body and mind but it's tools for you to use. So be aware how you mind is going and like don't fight it but like make concious choices of thought and action. I just need not to overthink it. Life is unpredictable. No right or wrong answers but you're conscious would have a sense of what to do.

[@selihter]

@@makaniistorm8664 did you have to use the fuck?lol

[@makaniistorm8664]

@@selihter Na. But I see no problem.

[@contsmsg8324]

Doc, you sure use alot of "shoulds"...

[@crustyfapkin4349]

I think my conscience says “uhh idk” every time I ask it something